The twelve members of the jury for 2003 are:
Svetlana Alexievitch, Belarus,
Hans Christoph Buch, Germany,
Jorge Edwards, Chile,
Philip Gourevitch, USA,
Nedim Gürsel, Turkey,
Isabel Hilton, Great Britain,
Natsuki Ikezawa, Japan,
Elias Khoury, Lebanon,
Pedro Rosa Mendes, Portugal,
Nirmal Verma, India,
Abdourahman Waberi, Djibouti/France,
Yang Xiaobin, China.