Saltire Literary Awards 2003
Presented at the National Library of Scotland on 28 November.
Shortlisted Titles 2003
Scottish Book of the Year
- Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson (Publishers: Doubleday)
- Living Nowhere by John Burnside (Jonathan Cape)
- The Big Bumper Book of Troy by W N Herbert (Bloodaxe)
- Lady Magdalen by Robin Jenkins (Canongate)
- The Colour of Black & White by Liz Lochhead (Polygon)
- Cathures by Edwin Morgan (Carcanet)
- Joseph Knight by James Robertson (Fourth Estate) [Winner]
- The Whole Story & other stories by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
First Book of the Year
- Ath-Aithne by Martainn Mac an t-Saoir (Clar) [Winner]
- Clan McHine by Ian McDonough (Chapman)
- The Fundamentals of New Caledonia by David Nicol (Luath Press)
- Spit Against the Wind by Anna Smith (Review)
Research Book of the Year
- The Greig - Duncan Folk Song Collection edited by Patrick Shuldham-Shaw, Emily B Lyle and Katherine Campbell (Mercat Press) [Winner]
- Scots at School, An Anthology written and edited by David Northcroft (EUP)
- The Jacobites and Russia 1715-1750 by Rebecca Wills (Tuckwell Press) [Commended]