First-time novelist DBC Pierre won the Man Booker Prize for his black comedy Vernon God Little. A reformed drug addict, Pierre - whose real name is Peter Finlay - was praised for capturing the world's abiding interest in modern America in his novel about a high school massacre in Texas.

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The 2003 MAN BOOKER WINNER:

• Vernon God Little by DCB Pierre

THE 2003 MAN BOOKER SHORTLIST:

• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
• Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall

• Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
• Turn Again Home by Carol Birch
• Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg
• Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
• The Taxi Driver's Daughter by Julia Darling
• Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan
• The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• The Nick of Time by Francis King
• Heligoland by Shena Mackay
• Jazz Etc by John Murray
• Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson
• Judge Savage by Tim Parks
• A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
• Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
• The Light of Day by Graham Swift
• Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido

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