Poet Laureate of the United States

Louise Gluck

Wild Iris
Vita Nova

2003 Nobel Prize for Literature

J.M. Coetzee

Stranger Shores
Boyhood
Youth
Disgrace
The Master of St. Petersburg
Waiting for the Barbarians
Life & Times of Michael K
Elizabeth Costello

2003 James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award
Zuni Café Cookbook
Judy Rodgers

2004 Whitbread Book of the Year
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Mark Haddon

2004 Newbery Award
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo

2004 Caldecott Medal
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Mordicai Gerstein

2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Moy Sand & Gravel
Paul Muldoon

2002 Philip K. Dick Award
The Mount
Carol Emshwiller

2002 Nebula Award
American Gods
Neil Gaiman

2003 Hugo Award
Hominids
Robert J. Sawyer

2003 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel
Winter and Night
S.J. Rozan

2003 Bram Stoker Award
The Night Class
Tom Piccirilli

IMPAC 2003 Dublin Literary Award
My Name is Red
Orphan Pamuk

2004 Nevstadt International Prize
Without End: New & Selected Poems
Adam Zagajewski

2003 Orange Prize
Property
Valerie Martin

2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides

2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Anna in the Tropics
Nilo Cruz

2003 Pulitzer Prize for History
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Rick Atkinson

2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Power

2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro

2003 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Carlos Eire

2003 National Book Award for Poetry
The Singing
C.K. Williams

2003 National Book Award for Fiction
The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard

2003 Man Booker Prize
Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre

2003 Pen USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg