Calendar of Literary Facts

2003

  • J. M. Coetzee receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • D. B. C. Pierre receives the Man Booker Prize for Vernon God Little
  • Nilo Cruz receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Anna in the Tropics (April 7)
  • Paul Muldoon receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Moy Sand and Gravel (April 7)
  • Rick Atkinson receives the Pulitzer Prize in history for An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (April 7)
  • Robert A. Caro receives the Pulitzer Prize in biography for Master of the Senate (April 7)
  • Samantha Power receives the Pulitzer Prize in literature for ‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide (April 7)
  • Jeffrey Eugenides receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Middlesex (April 7)
  • Howard Fast dies (March 12)