2003 in literature

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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 2003.

Events

February 12 – An invitation from First Lady of the United States Laura Bush for a number of poets to attend a conference at the White House on this date is postponed when one of them, Sam Hamill, organizes a "Poets Against the War" group which arranges poetry readings across the United States on this date.^[1]
April 14 – The Iraq National Library and Archive is burned down as part of the Battle of Baghdad.^[2]
October – Nicholas Hytner succeeds Sir Trevor Nunn as artistic director of the British National Theatre in London.
November 7 – UNESCO designates wayang kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.^[3]

January 5 – Jean Kerr, American author and playwright (born 1923)
January 21 – Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet and songwriter (born 1933)
February 16 – Aleksandar Tišma, Serbian novelist (born 1924)
February 26 – Quentin Keynes, English explorer, writer and filmmaker (born 1921)
March 11 – Brian Cleeve, English-born Irish writer and broadcaster (born 1921)
March 12 – Howard Fast, American novelist (born 1914)
March 14 – Lucian Boz, Romanian and Australian literary critic (born 1908)
April 3 – Michael Kelly, American journalist (born 1957)
April 7 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French children's writer (born 1903)
June 21
- George Axelrod, American dramatist and screenwriter (born 1922)
- Leon Uris, American novelist (born 1924)
July 6 – Kathleen Raine, English poet, scholar, and translator (born 1908)^[5]
July 10 – Winston Graham, English novelist (born 1908)
July 14 – Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist and children's writer (born 1926)
July 15 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean-born fiction writer (born 1953)
July 16 – Carol Shields, American-born Canadian novelist (breast cancer, born 1935)
September 3 – Alan Dugan, American poet (born 1923)
November 9 – Alan Davidson, Northern Irish historian and food writer (born 1924)
December 12 – Fadwa Toukan, Palestinian poet (born 1917)

↑ Knowles, Joe (2003-02-14). "Poets Against the War". In These Times. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
↑ Eskander, Saad (December 2004). "The Tale of Iraq's 'Cemetery of Books'". Information Today. 21 (11): 1–54.
↑ Indonesian wayang Inscribed in 2003 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
↑ Goodreads, Into the Blue, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012
↑ Watts, Janet (8 July 2003). "Obituary: Kathleen Raine". the Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
↑ Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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