Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
Appearance
The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award is awarded by the Authors' Club to the most promising first novel of the year, written by a British author and published in the UK during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented.[1]
Winner
[edit]It has been awarded to the following:[2]
Year | Author | Title | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
1954 | David Unwin | The Governor's Wife | |
1955 | Brian Moore | Judith Hearne | |
1956 | Harry Bloom | Episode | |
1957 | Edmund Ward | Summer in Retreat | |
1958 | Alan Sillitoe | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | |
1959 | David Caute | At Fever Pitch | |
1960 | Lionel Davidson | The Night of Wenceslas | |
1961 | Jim Hunter | The Sun in the Morning | |
1962 | John Pearson | Gone to Timbuctoo | |
1963 | David Rubin | The Greater Darkness | |
1964 | Robin Douglas-Home | Hot for Certainties | |
1965 | James Mossman | Beggars on Horseback | |
1966 | Leslie Thomas | The Virgin Soldiers | |
1967 | Paul Bailey | At the Jerusalem | |
1968 | Barry England | Figures in a Landscape | |
1969 | Peter Tinniswood | A Touch of Daniel | |
1970 | Rachel Ingalls | Theft | |
1971 | Rosemary Hawley Jarman | We Speak No Treason | |
1973 | Jennifer Johnston | The Captains and the Kings | |
1975 | Sasha Moorsom | A Lavender Trip | |
1977 | Barbara Benson | The Underlings | |
1978 | Katharine Gordon | The Emerald Peacock | |
1979 | Martin Page | The Pilate Plot | |
1980 | Dawn Lowe-Watson | The Good Morrow | |
1981 | Anne Smith | The Magic Glass | |
1982 | Frances Vernon | Privileged Children | |
1983 | Katherine Moore | Summer at the Haven | |
1984 | Frederick R. Hyde-Chambers | Lama: A Novel of Tibet | |
1985 | Magda Sweetland | Eightsome Reel | |
1986 | Helen Harris | Playing Fields in Winter | |
1987 | Peter Benson | The Levels | |
1988 | Gilbert Adair | The Holy Innocents | |
1989 | Lindsey Davis | The Silver Pigs | [3] |
1990 | Alan Brownjohn | The Way You Tell Them | [4] |
1991 | Zina Rohan | The Book of Wishes and Complaints | [5] |
1992 | David Park | The Healing | [6] |
1993 | Nadeem Aslam | Season of the Rainbirds | [7] |
1994 | Andrew Cowan | Pig | |
1995 | T. J. Armstrong | Walter and the Resurrection of G | |
1996 | Diran Adebayo | Some Kind of Black | |
Rhidian Brook | The Testimony of Taliesin Jones | ||
1997 | Mick Jackson | The Underground Man | |
1998 | Jackie Kay | Trumpet | |
1999 | Ann Harries | Manly Pursuits | |
2000 | Brian Clarke | The Stream | [8] |
2001 | Carl Tighe | Burning Worm | [9] |
2002 | Ben Facini | The Water Breather | |
2003 | Dan Rhodes | Timoleon Vieta Come Home | [10] |
2004 | Susan Fletcher | Eve Green | [11] |
2004 | Neil Griffiths | Betrayal in Naples | |
2005 | Henry Shukman | Sandstorm | [12] |
2006 | Nicola Monaghan | The Killing Jar | [13] |
2007 | Segun Afolabi | Goodbye Lucille | [14] |
2009 | Laura Beatty | Pollard | [15] |
2010 | Anthony Quinn | The Rescue Man | [16] |
2011 | Jonathan Kemp | London Triptych | |
2012 | Kevin Barry | City of Bohane | [17] |
2013 | Ros Barber | The Marlowe Papers | [18] |
I. J. Kay | Mountains of the Moon | ||
2014 | Jack Wolf | The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones | |
2015 | Carys Bray | A Song for Issy Bradley | |
2016 | Benjamin Johncock | The Last Pilot | |
2017 | Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | Harmless Like You | |
2018 | Gail Honeyman | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine | |
2019 | Guy Gunaratne | In Our Mad and Furious City | [19] |
2020 | Claire Adam | Golden Child | [20] |
2021 | Ingrid Persaud | Love after Love | |
2022 | Tish Delaney | Before My Actual Heart Breaks | |
2023 | Ayanna Lloyd Banwo | When We Were Birds |
References
[edit]- ^ Booktrust: > Home
- ^ Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd ISBN 0-85365-558-8
- ^ "Lindsey Davis, audio books on Cassette and CD - UK Audiobooks". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- ^ "Alan Brownjohn". British Council Literature. British Council. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- ^ "Zina Rohan - Books". Zinarohan.squarespace.com. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ^ David Park
- ^ "Nadeem Aslam". British Council Literature. British Council. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- ^ The Independent
- ^ Carl scoops best book honour – News – South Manchester Reporter
- ^ "Dan Rhodes". British Council Literature. British Council. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- ^ Penguin Books UK - Prize-winners
- ^ [1] Archived August 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [2] Archived October 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "News". The Bookseller. 2010-07-20. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ^ "News". The Bookseller. 2010-07-20. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ^ Anthony Quinn in Author's Club win
- ^ "Best First Novel Award | Authors' Club". Dolmanprize.wordpress.com. 2012-06-06. Archived from the original on 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ^ "Authors' Club Best First Novel Award". Dolmanprize.wordpress.com. 2013-06-03. Archived from the original on 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
- ^ "Guy Gunaratne wins Authors' Club award". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
- ^ "Best First Novel Award". The Authors' Club Since 1891. Retrieved 2021-05-18.