Ruth Hadden Memorial Award

The Ruth Hadden Memorial Award is an award for the best first novel published in Britain. Formerly administered by the Booktrust, it has now been discontinued.[1]

Past winners

1994: Pig, by Andrew Cowan[2]

1993: In the Place of Fallen Leaves, by Tim Pears[3]

1992: Leaving the Light On, by Catherine Merriman[4]

1991: The Last Room, by Elean Thomas[5]

References

  1. ^ Booktrust: Ruth Hadden Memorial Award (accessed 18 February 2009)
  2. ^ British Council: Contemporary Writers: Andrew Cowan (accessed 18 February 2009)
  3. ^ British Council: Contemporary Writers: Tim Pears (accessed 18 February 2009)
  4. ^ Academi: Members Committee (accessed 18 February 2009)
  5. ^ Johnson, Buzz. Elean Thomas: Writer with a message of human rights. The Guardian (31 July 2004) (accessed 18 February 2009)