The judging panel for the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has announced the longlist of 23 books were chosen from 117 entries. The 2003 shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 16 September. The winner will be announced on Tuesday 14 October at an awards ceremony in the Great Court of the British Museum, London.
Monica Ali, Brick Lane, ; Martin Amis, Yellow Dog ; Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake ; Carol Birch, Turn Again Home,
; Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the Lines ; J.M.Coetzee, Elizabeth
Costello; Julia Darling, The Taxi Driver's Daughter,Gerard Donovan, Schopenhauer's Telescope ; Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor, ; Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic,
;Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal, ; Francis King, The Nick of Time, ; Shena Mackay, Heligoland, ; Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes Of Colour, John Murray, Jazz etc, ; Julie Myerson, Something Might Happen; Tim Parks, Judge Savage,
; Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore, ; DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little, ; Jonathan Raban, Waxwings, Graham Swift, The Light of Day, ; Barbara Trapido, Frankie & Stankie.