Guardian Fiction Prize

The Guardian Fiction Prize was a literary award sponsored by the The Guardian newspaper.^[1][2] Founded in 1965, it recognized one fiction book per year written by a British or Commonwealth writer and published in the United Kingdom. The award ran for 33 years before being terminated.

In 1999, the Guardian replaced the Fiction Prize with the Guardian First Book Award, for début works of both fiction and non-fiction,^[3] which was discontinued in 2016, with the 2015 awards being the last.^[4]

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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