Longlist | Authors 2003
(ordered alphabetically with specification of the original language/ first language of publication)
Kemal Anadol, Büyük Ayrili: The great separation, Turkish
Ian Buruma: Bad Elements, English
Christian Dedet: Au Royaume d'Abomey, French
Fan Wen: The Mist on The Ancient Path, Chinese
Nuruddin Farah: Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora, English
Sergio González Rodriguez: Huesos en el desierto [Bones in the Desert], Spanish
Jiang Hao: Revealing the Secrets of Poachers, Chinese
Jean Hatzfeld: Dans le Nu de la Vie, French
Sae-Hwa Hong: The Seine Divides Left and Right, The Hang Gang Separates North and South, Korean
Christina Lamb: The Sewing Circles of Herat. A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan, English
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, English
John Pilger: The New Rulers of the World, English
Sergio Pitol: El Viaje, Spanish
Anna Politkovskaja: Tschetschenien. Die Wahrheit über den Krieg [Chechnya. The Truth about the War], Russian
Anna Politkovskaja: Tchétchénie: le déshonneur russe, French
Linda Polman: We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn't Always Come Out When the UN Goes in, Dutch
Ruben Gonzalez Gallego: Beloié na tchiornem [White on Black], Russian
Ramesh Chandra Shah: Along the Dark Shores, Hindi
Mark Tully and Gillian Wright: India in Slow Motion, English
Bernd Wagner: Wie ich nach Chihuahua kam. Eine amerikanische Reise [How I got to Chihuahua. An American Journey], German
"Reportage and literature tend to be separate in the Arab world. In reportage you talk
about events, about current affairs; and there is literature, which has something to do
with imagination. Literary reportage is a new genre, a new way of approaching
modern life"Amjad Nasser (jury member 2004)