BOOK AWARDS
Guardian First Book Award 2002
http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstbook2003
The Guardian First Book Award began life 37 years ago as the Guardian Fiction Award, with prize money of 200 guineas but with the increase of other fiction prizes, the focus changed in 1999 to "recognise and reward new writing in fiction and non-fiction" and is still the only big literary award in which readers have their say — reading groups based at Borders bookshops across the UK pick the shortlist.
The winner of the £10,000 prize was announced at a ceremony in London on 3rd December.
Winner (announced early December)
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Shortlist (announced end October)
The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done by Sandra Newman
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Mapping Mars by Oliver Morton
Longlist (announced end August)
| Title (fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Everything is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | Hamish Hamilton | 0241141664 |
| Accidents in the Home | Tessa Hadley | Jonathan Cape | 0224062301 |
| The Cutting Room | Louise Welsh | Canongate | 184195280X |
| The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done | Sandra Newman | Chatto & Windus | 0701173114 |
| The Impressionist | Hari Kunzru | Hamish Hamilton | 0241141699 |
| Title (non-fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Mapping Mars | Oliver Morton | Fourth Estate | 184115668X |
| Virgins of Venice | Mary Laven | Viking | 0670896357 |
| The Snow Geese | William Fiennes | Picador | 0330492853 |
| Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight | Alexandra Fuller | Picador | 0330490230 |
| Stories I Stole | Wendell Steavenson | Atlantic Books | 1843540002 |
