McKitterick Prize

The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of The Political Quarterly but had also written a novel which was never published. The prize is awarded annually for a first novel (which need not have been published) by an author over 40. As of 2009, the value of the prize was £4000.

The McKitterick Prize was first awarded in 1990.

List of prize winners

1990s

Year	Author	Title
1990	Simon Mawer	Chimera
1991	John Loveday	Halo
1992	Alberto Manguel	News from a Foreign Country Came
1993	Andrew Barrow	The Tap Dancer
1994	Helen Dunmore	Zennor in Darkness
1995	Christopher Bigsby	Hester
1996	Stephen Blanchard	Gagarin and I
1997	Patricia Duncker	Hallucinating Foucault
1998	Eli Gottlieb	The Boy Who Went Away
1999	Magnus Mills	The Restraint of Beasts

2000s

Year	Author	Title
2000	Chris Dolan	Ascension Day
2001	Giles Waterfield	The Long Afternoon
2002	Manil Suri	The Death of Vishnu
2003	Mary Lawson	Crow Lake
2004	Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2005	Lloyd Jones	Mr Vogel
2006	Peter Pouncey	Rules for Old Men Waiting
2007	Reina James	This Time of Dying
2008	Jennie Walker	24 for 3
2009	Chris Hannan	Missy

2010s

• 2010 - Raphael Selbourne for Beauty
• 2011 - Winner: Emma Henderson for Grace Williams Says It Loud

(Runner-up: Frances Kay for Micka)

• 2012 - Winner: Ginny Baily for Africa Junction

(Runner-up: Cressida Connolly for My Former Heart)

• 2013 - Winner: Alison Moore for The Lighthouse

(Runner-up: Caroline Brothers for Hinterland)

• 2014 - Winner: Gabriel Weston for Dirty Work

(Runner-up: Gabriel Gbadamosi for Vauxhall)

• 2015 - Winner: Robert Allison for The Letter Bearer

(Runner-up: Paul Ewen for Francis Pug: How To Be A Public Author)

• 2016 - Winner: Petina Gappah for The Book of Memory

(Runner-up: Nick Coleman for Pillow Man)

• 2017 - Winner: David Dyer for The Midnight Watch

(Runner-up: Austin Duffy for This Living & immortal Thing)

• 2018 - Winner: Anietie Isong for Radio Sunrise

(Runner-up: Frances Maynard for The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr)

• 2019 - Winner: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott for Swan Song

(Runner-up: Carys Davies for West)

2020s

• 2020 - Winner: Claire Adam for Golden Child

(Runner-up: Taffy Brodesser-Akner for Fleishman is in Trouble)

• 2021 - Winner: Elaine Feeney for As You Were

(Runner-up: Deepa Anappara for Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line)

• 2022 - Winner: David Annand for Peterdown

(Runner-up: Lisa Taddeo for Animal)

• 2023 - Winner: Louise Kennedy for Trespasses

(Runner-up: Liz Hyder for The Gifts)

• 2024 - Winner: Wenyan Lu for The Funeral Cryer

(Runner-up: Chidi Ebere for Now I Am Here)

Sources

• "Past winners of the McKitterick Prize". Society of Authors.