Guardian first book award 2002
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New fiction by Jonathan Safran Foer, who won the Guardian First Book Award this week
Voyage of discovery
At 19, Jonathan Safran Foer went looking for the Ukrainian who saved his grandfather. The novel inspired by his futile quest won the Guardian First Book Award. Oliver Burkeman met him
First journey ends with Guardian book prize
The Guardian First Book Award has been won by Jonathan Safran Foer's funny, touching and baroque novel Everything Is Illuminated, about a young American Jew's journey to the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
Mapping Mars by Oliver Morton
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done by Sandra Newman
Readers favour genre-busting novels for £10,000 prize
Two genre-busting novels last night emerged as the readers' favourites to take the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award.
Mapping Mars by Oliver Morton
'Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, "When I grow up I will go there." The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven't been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour's off. Other places were scattered about the Equator, and in every sort of latitude all over the two hemispheres. I have been in some of them, and . . . well, we won't talk about that. But there was one yet - the biggest, the most blank, so to speak - that I had a hankering after . . .'
Marlow in Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley
Chapter one: Lost and Found
Stories I Stole by Wendell Steavenson
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
In the pink
Oliver Morton introduces Duncan Steel to some Martians in Mapping Mars
More tease, less strip
Paul Magrs on Louise Welsh's The Cutting Room, a detective novel that effortlessly glides into literary fiction.
Men outnumbered on novel prize longlist
A former professional blackjack player and a woman antiquarian books dealer who writes as a gay man are in the running for this year's £10,000 Guardian First Book Award, writes Angelique Chrisafis.
Kathy Burke joins judging panel for Guardian First Book Award
A distinguished panel of outside judges will choose the shortlist and winner of the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award.
