Guardian Fiction Prize

The Guardian Fiction Prize was the original incarnation of the oldest and best-established of awards sponsored by any newspaper.^[1][2] Founded in 1965 by the The Guardian it recognised one book per annum in the field of fiction by a British or Commonwealth writer published in the United Kingdom, running for thirty-three years in this format.

1999 saw the Guardian Fiction Prize relaunched as the Guardian First Book Award, which includes non-fiction and only considers début works.^[3]

Guardian Fiction Prize winners

• 1965 Clive Barry, Crumb Borne
• 1966 Archie Hind, The Dear Green Place
• 1967 Eva Figes, Winter Journey
• 1968 P. J. Kavanagh, A Song and a Dance
• 1969 Maurice Leitch, Poor Lazarus
• 1970 Margaret Blount, When Did You Last See your Father?
• 1971 Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel
• 1972 John Berger, G
• 1973 Peter Redgrove, In the Country of the Skin
• 1974 Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
• 1975 Sylvia Clayton, Friends and Romans
• 1976 Robert Nye, Falstaff
• 1977 Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak
• 1978 Roy Heath, The Murderer
• 1979 Neil Jordan, Night in Tunisia

(and) Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger

• 1980 J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country
• 1981 John Banville, Kepler
• 1982 Glyn Hughes, Where I Used to Play on the Green
• 1983 Graham Swift, Waterland
• 1984 J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
• 1985 Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
• 1986 Jim Crace, Continent
• 1987 Peter Benson, The Levels
• 1988 Lucy Ellmann, Sweet Desserts
• 1989 Carol Lake, Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City
• 1990 Pauline Melville, Shape-Shifter
• 1991 Alan Judd, The Devil's Own Work
• 1992 Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
• 1993 Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door
• 1994 Candia McWilliam, Debatable Land
• 1995 James Buchan, Heart's Journey in Winter
• 1996 Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
• 1997 Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
• 1998 Jackie Kay, Trumpet

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