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The winners for the 2003 National Book Awards were announced by novelist Walter Mosley, who will served as Master of Ceremonies at the Award Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 19th, 2003.
Here is the complete list of winners:
FICTION:
Shirley Hazzard, THE GREAT FIRE (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
NONFICTION:
Carlos Eire, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA: Confessions of a Cuban Boy (Free Press)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:
Polly Horvath, THE CANNING SEASON (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
POETRY:
C.K. Williams, THE SINGING: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2003 National Book Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 2003 National Book Awards were recently announced by novelist Walter Mosley, who will serve as Master of Ceremonies at the Award Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 19th.
Nine of the authors selected are previous National Book Award Finalists. They include Shirley Hazzard, Polly Horvath, Edward P. Jones, Richard Peck, Charles Simic, Louis Simpson, Scott Spencer, C.K. Williams and Jacqueline Woodson. Also noteworthy is that Young People's Literature Finalist Paul Fleischman's father Sid Fleischman was a 1979 Finalist in the same category.
Here is the complete list of nominees:
FICTION:
T.C. Boyle, DROP CITY (Viking)
Shirley Hazzard, THE GREAT FIRE (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Edward P. Jones, THE KNOWN WORLD (Amistad)
Scott Spencer, A SHIP MADE OF PAPER (Ecco)
Marianne Wiggins, EVIDENCE OF THINGS UNSEEN (Simon & Schuster)
NONFICTION:
Anne Applebaum, GULAG: A History (Doubleday)
George Howe Colt, THE BIG HOUSE: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home (Scribner)
John D'Emilio, LOST PROPHET: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (Free Press)
Carlos Eire, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA: Confessions of a Cuban Boy (Free Press)
Erik Larson, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Crown)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:
Paul Fleischman, BREAKOUT (Cricket/Marcato)
Polly Horvath, THE CANNING SEASON (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jim Murphy, AN AMERICAN PLAGUE: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Clarion)
Richard Peck, THE RIVER BETWEEN US (Dial)
Jacqueline Woodson, LOCOMOTION (Putnam)
POETRY:
Carole Muske-Dukes, SPARROW: Poems (Random House)
Charles Simic, THE VOICE AT 3 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems (Harcourt)
Louis Simpson, THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001 (BOA Editions)
C.K. Williams, THE SINGING: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jelly Roll: A Blues by Kevin Young (Knopf)
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