Book Award , the Bram Stoker Award , the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel , and was short-listed for other awards, including the Hugo . A [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban_%28film%29]film[/url] based on the novel was released on 31 May 2004, in the United Kingdom and 4 June 2004 in the U.S. and