- 2008 – Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
- 2007 – Doris Lessing
- 2006 – Orhan Pamuk
- 2005 – Harold Pinter
- 2004 – Elfriede Jelinek
- 2003 – J. M. Coetzee
- 2002 – Imre Kertész
- 2001 – V. S. Naipaul
- 2000 – Gao Xingjian
- 1999 – Günter Grass
- 1998 – José Saramago
- 1997 – Dario Fo
- 1996 – Wislawa Szymborska
- 1995 – Seamus Heaney
- 1994 – Kenzaburo Oe
- 1993 – Toni Morrison
- 1992 – Derek Walcott
- 1991 – Nadine Gordimer
- 1990 – Octavio Paz
- 1989 – Camilo José Cela
- 1988 – Naguib Mahfouz
- 1987 – Joseph Brodsky
- 1986 – Wole Soyinka
- 1985 – Claude Simon
- 1984 – Jaroslav Seifert
- 1983 – William Golding
- 1982 – Gabriel García Márquez
- 1981 – Elias Canetti
- 1980 – Czeslaw Milosz
- 1979 – Odysseus Elytis
- 1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1977 – Vicente Aleixandre
- 1976 – Saul Bellow
- 1975 – Eugenio Montale
- 1974 – Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
- 1973 – Patrick White
- 1972 – Heinrich Böll
- 1971 – Pablo Neruda
- 1970 – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1969 – Samuel Beckett
- 1968 – Yasunari Kawabata
- 1967 – Miguel Angel Asturias
- 1966 – Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
- 1965 – Mikhail Sholokhov
- 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1963 – Giorgos Seferis
- 1962 – John Steinbeck
- 1961 – Ivo Andric
- 1960 – Saint-John Perse
- 1959 – Salvatore Quasimodo
- 1958 – Boris Pasternak
- 1957 – Albert Camus
- 1956 – Juan Ramón Jiménez
- 1955 – Halldór Laxness
- 1954 – Ernest Hemingway
- 1953 – Winston Churchill
- 1952 – François Mauriac
- 1951 – Pär Lagerkvist
- 1950 – Bertrand Russell
- 1949 – William Faulkner
- 1948 – T.S. Eliot
- 1947 – André Gide
- 1946 – Hermann Hesse
- 1945 – Gabriela Mistral
- 1944 – Johannes V. Jensen
- 1943 – The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1942 – The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1941 – The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1940 – The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1939 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää
- 1938 – Pearl Buck
- 1937 – Roger Martin du Gard
- 1936 – Eugene O’Neill
- 1935 – The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1934 – Luigi Pirandello
- 1933 – Ivan Bunin
- 1932 – John Galsworthy
- 1931 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- 1930 – Sinclair Lewis
- 1929 – Thomas Mann
- 1928 – Sigrid Undset
- 1927 – Henri Bergson
- 1926 – Grazia Deledda
- 1925 – George Bernard Shaw
- 1924 – Wladyslaw Reymont
- 1923 – William Butler Yeats
- 1922 – Jacinto Benavente
- 1921 – Anatole France
- 1920 – Knut Hamsun
- 1919 – Carl Spitteler
- 1918 – The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1917 – Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
- 1916 – Verner von Heidenstam
- 1915 – Romain Rolland
- 1914 – The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1913 – Rabindranath Tagore
- 1912 – Gerhart Hauptmann
- 1911 – Maurice Maeterlinck
- 1910 – Paul Heyse
- 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf
- 1908 – Rudolf Eucken
- 1907 – Rudyard Kipling
- 1906 – Giosuè Carducci
- 1905 – Henryk Sienkiewicz
- 1904 – Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
- 1903 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- 1902 – Theodor Mommsen
- 1901 – Sully Prudhomme
Agatha Award Winners
- 2005 – The Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page, William Morrow
- 2004 – Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)
- 2003 – Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart (Berkley Prime Crime)
- 2002 – You’ve Got Murder by Donna Andrews (Berkley Prime Crime)
- 2001 – Murphy’s Law, Rhys Bowen (St Martin’s Minotaur Books)
- 2000 – Storm Track, Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
- 1999 – Mariner’s Compass by Earlene Fowler (Berkley Publishing Group)
- 1998 – Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman (Avon Books)
- 1997 – The Devil In Music by Kate Ross (Viking)
- 1996 – Up Jumps The Devil by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
- 1995 – If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb (Ballantine)
- 1994 – She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb (Scribner)
- 1993 – Dead Man’s Island by Carolyn Hart (Bantam)
- 1992 – Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
- 1991 – I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard (Pocket )
- 1990 – Bum Steer by Nancy Pickard (Pocket )
- 1989 – Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters (Warner)
- 1988 – Something Wicked by Carolyn G. Hart (Bantam)
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Winners
- 1942 – Michael Richey, Sunk by a Mine
- 1943 – Morwenna Donelly, Beauty for Ashes
- 1944 – Alun Lewis, The Last Inspection
- 1945 – James Aldridge, The Sea Eagle
- 1946 – Oriel Malet, My Bird Sings
- 1947 – Anne-Marie Walters, Moondrop to Gascony
- 1948 – Richard Mason, The Wind Cannot Read
- 1949 – Emma Smith, Maiden’s Trip
- 1950 – Kenneth Allsop, Adventure Lit Their Star
- 1951 – Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Beautiful Visit
- 1952 – No Award
- 1953 – Rachel Trickett, The Return Home
- 1954 – Tom Stacey, The Hostile Sun
- 1955 – John Wiles, The Moon to Play With
- 1956 – John Hearne, Voices Under the Window
- 1957 – Ruskin Bond, The Room on the Roof
- 1958 – V. S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur
- 1959 – Dan Jacobson, A Long Way from London
- 1960 – David Caute, At Fever Pitch
- 1961 – David Storey, Flight Into Camden
- 1962 – Robert Rhodes James, An Introduction to the House of Commons, and Edward Lucie-Smith, A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems
- 1963 – Peter Marshall, Two Lives
- 1964 – Nell Dunn, Up the Junction
- 1965 – Julian Mitchell, The White Father
- 1966 – Margaret Drabble, The Millstone
- 1967 – Anthony Masters, The Seahorse
- 1968 – Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
- 1969 – Melvyn Bragg, Without a City Wall
- 1970 – Angus Calder, The People’s War
- 1971 – Shiva Naipaul, Fireflies
- 1972 – Susan Hill, The Albatross
- 1973 – Peter Smalley, A Warm Gun
- 1974 – Hugh Fleetwood, The Girl Who Passed for Normal
- 1975 – David Hare, Knuckle, and Tim Jeal, Cushing’s Crusade
- 1976 – No Award
- 1977 – Richard Cork, Vorticism & Abstract Art in the First Machine Age
- 1978 – A. N. Wilson, The Sweets of Pimlico
- 1979 – Peter Boardman, The Shining Mountain
- 1980 – Desmond Hogan, The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea
- 1981 – A. N. Wilson, The Laird of Abbotsford
- 1982 – William Boyd, An Ice-Cream War
- 1983 – Lisa St Aubin de Teran, The Slow Train to Milan
- 1984 – Andrew Motion, Dangerous Play
- 1985 – John Milne, Out of the Blue
- 1986 – Tim Parks, Loving Roger
- 1987 – Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
- 1988 – Matthew Yorke, The March Fence
- 1989 – Claire Harman, Sylvia Townsend Warner
- 1990 – Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
- 1991 – A. L. Kennedy, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains
- 1992 – Matthew Kneale, Sweet Thames
- 1993 – Jason Goodwin, On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul
- 1994 – Jonathan Coe, What a carve up!
- 1995 – Melanie McGrath, Motel Nirvana
- 1996 – Nicola Barker, Heading Inland
- 1997 – Phil Whitaker, Eclipse of the Sun
- 1998 – Peter Ho Davies, The Ugliest House in the World
- 1999 – David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
- 2000 – Edward Platt (writer), Leadville
- 2001 – Susanna Jones, The Earthquake Bird
- 2002 – Mary Laven, Virgins of Venice
- (Initially awarded to Hari Kunzru for his book The Impressionist but the author declinee the award)
- 2003 – Charlotte Mendelson, Daughters of Jerusalem
- 2004 – Jonathan Trigell, Boy A
- 2005 – Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
Hawthornden Prize Winners
- 1919 – Edward Shanks, The Queen of China
- 1920 – John Freeman, Poems New and Old
- 1921 – Romer Wilson, The Death of Society
- 1922 – Edmund Blunden, The Shepherd
- 1923 – David Garnett, Lady into Fox
- 1924 – Ralph Hale Mottram, The Spanish Farm
- 1925 – Sean O’Casey, Juno and the Paycock
- 1926 – Vita Sackville-West, The Land
- 1927 – Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter
- 1928 – Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- 1929 – Lord David Cecil, The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper
- 1930 – Geoffrey Dennis, The End of the World
- 1931 – Kate O’Brien, Without My Cloak
- 1932 – Charles Morgan, The Fountain
- 1933 – Vita Sackville-West, Collected Poems
- 1934 – James Hilton, Lost Horizon
- 1935 – Robert Graves, I, Claudius
- 1936 – Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion
- 1937 – Ruth Pitter, A Trophy of Arms
- 1938 – David Jones, In Parenthesis
- 1939 – Christopher Hassall, Penthesperon
- 1940 – James Pope-Hennessy, London Fabric
- 1941 – Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
- 1942 – John Llewllyn Rhys, England is My Village
- 1943 – Sidney Keyes, The Cruel Solstice and The Iron Laurel
- 1944 – Martyn Skinner, Letters to Malaya
- 1945-1957 – No award
- 1958 – Dom Moraes, A Beginning
- 1959 – No award
- 1960 – Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
- 1961 – Ted Hughes, Lupercal
- 1962 – Robert Shaw, The Sun Doctor
- 1963 – Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
- 1964 – V. S. Naipaul, Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion
- 1965 – William Trevor, The Old Boys
- 1966 – No award
- 1967 – Michael Frayn, The Russian Interpreter
- 1968 – Michael Levey, Early Renaissance
- 1969 – Geoffrey Hill, King Log
- 1970 – Piers Paul Read, Monk Dawson
- 1971-73 – No award
- 1974 – Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- 1975 – David Lodge, Changing Places
- 1976 – Robert Nye, Falstaff
- 1977 – Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
- 1978 – David Cook, Walter
- 1979 – P. S. Rushforth, Kindergarten
- 1980 – Christopher Reid, Arcadia
- 1981 – Douglas Dunn, St. Kilda’s Parliament
- 1982 – Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet
- 1983 – Jonathan Keates, Allegro Postillions
- 1984-87 – No award
- 1988 – Colin Thubron, Behind the Wall: A Journey through China
- 1989 – Alan Bennett, Talking Heads
- 1990 – Kit Wright, Short Afternoons
- 1991 – Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
- 1992 – Ferdinand Mount, Of Love and Asthma
- 1993 – Andrew Barrow, The Tap Dancer
- 1994 – Tim Pears, In the Place of Fallen Leaves
- 1995 – James Michie, The Collected Poems
- 1996 – Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love
- 1997 – John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure
- 1998 – Charles Nicholl, Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91
- 1999 – Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
- 2000 – Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan
- 2001 – Helen Simpson, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life
- 2002 – Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
- 2003 – William Fiennes, The Snow Geese
- 2004 – Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography
- 2005 – Justin Cartwright, The Promise of Happiness
The Duff Cooper Prize Winners
- 2007 – William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
- 2005 – Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire
- 2004 – Mark Mazower, Salonica: City of Ghosts
- 2003 – Anne Applebaum, Gulag – A History of the Soviet Camps
- 2002 – Jane Ridley, The Architect and his Wife
- 2001 – Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempts to End War
- 2000 – Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
- 1999 – Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost
- 1998 – Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
- 1993 – John Keegan, A History of Warfare
- 1987 – Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore
- 1988 – Humphrey Carpenter, The Life of Ezra Pound
- 1975 – Seamus Heaney, North
- 1965 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Continent of Circe
- 1962 – Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War
- 1958 – John Betjeman, Collected Poems
- 1956 – Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli
Booker Prize Winners
1969: Percy Howard Newby, Something to Answer For
1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
1971: V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State
1972: John Berger, G.
1973: James Gordon Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist, and Stanley Middleton, Holiday
1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
1976: David Storey, Saville
1977: Paul Scott, Staying On
1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage
1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s Ark
1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
1990: A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient, and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how late
1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders
1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi
2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
2005: John Banville, The Sea
2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering
British Book Awards
The Book of the Year
2006 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling
2005 – The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (Corgi)
2004 – Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne truss (Profile)
2003 – Stupid White Men, Michael Moore (Penguin)
2002 – Billy, Pamela Stephenson (HarperCollins)
2001 – Man and Boy, Tony Parsons (HarperCollins)
2000 – Managing My Life, Alex Ferguson (Hodder & Stoughton)
1999 – Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes (Faber & Faber)
1998 – Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (Picador)
1997 – Longitude, Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate)
1996 – Delia Smith’s Winter Collection (BBC Books)
1995 – Writing Home, Alan Bennett (Faber & Faber)
1994 – Wild Swans, Jung Chang (Flamingo)
Commonwealth Writer’s Prize
1987 – Olive Senior, Summer Lightning
1988 – Festus Iyayi, Heroes
1989 – Janet Frame, The Carpathians
1990 – Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
1991 – David Malouf, The Great World
1992 – Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
1993 – Alex Miller, The Ancestor Game
1994 – Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
1995 – Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
1996 – Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
1997 – Earl Lovelace, Salt
1998 – Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
1999 – Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
2000 – John Maxwell Coetzee, Disgrace
2001 – Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2002 – Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish
2003 – Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
2004 – Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
2005 – Andrea Levy, Small Island
2006 – Kate Grenville, The Secret River
2007 – Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip
The Costa (Whitbread) Book Awards
- 2007 – A.L. Kennedy, Day
- 2006 – Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves
- 2005 – Hilary Spurling, Matisse The Master
- 2004 – Andrea Levy, Small Island
- 2003 – Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- 2002 – Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2001 – Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
- 2000 – Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
- 1999 – Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
- 1999 – Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
- 1998 – Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
- 1996 – Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh
- 1994 – William Trevor, Felicia’s Journey
- 1993 – Joan Brady, Theory of War
- 1992 – Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!
- 1991 – John Richardson, A Life of Picasso
- 1990 – Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters
- 1989 – Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
- 1988 – Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness
- 1987 – Christopher Nolan, Under the eye of the clock
- 1986 – Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
- 1985 – Douglas Dunn, Elegies
- 1984 – James Buchan, A Parish of Rich Women
- 1983 – John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere
- 1982 – Bruce Chatwin, On The Black Hill
- 1981 – William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa
- 1980 – David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?
Edgar Award Winners
Year | Title | Author |
---|---|---|
1954 | Beat Not the Bones | Charlotte Jay |
1955 | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler |
1956 | Beast in View | Margaret Millar |
1957 | A Dram of Poison | Charlotte Armstrong |
1958 | Room to Swing | Ed Lacy |
1959 | The Eighth Circle | Stanley Ellin |
1960 | The Hours Before Dawn | Celia Fremlin |
1961 | The Progress of a Crime | Julian Symons |
1962 | Gideon’s Fire | J. J. Marric |
1963 | Death and the Joyful Woman | Ellis Peters |
1964 | The Light of Day | Eric Ambler |
1965 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John le Carre |
1966 | The Quiller Memorandum | Adam Hall |
1967 | The King of the Rainy Country | Nicolas Freeling |
1968 | God Save the Mark | Donald E. Westlake |
1969 | A Case of Need | Jeffery Hudson |
1970 | Forfeit | Dick Francis |
1971 | The Laughing Policeman | Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö |
1972 | The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth |
1973 | The Lingala Code | Warren Kiefer |
1974 | Dance Hall of the Dead | Tony Hillerman |
1975 | Peter’s Pence | Jon Cleary |
1976 | Hopscotch | Brian Garfield |
1977 | Promised Land | Robert B. Parker |
1978 | Catch Me: Kill Me | William H. Hallahan |
1979 | The Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett |
1980 | The Rheingold Route | Arthur Maling |
1981 | Whip Hand | Dick Francis |
1982 | Peregrine | William Bayer |
1983 | Billingsgate Shoal | Rick Boyer |
1984 | La Brava | Elmore Leonard |
1985 | Briar Patch | Ross Thomas |
1986 | The Suspect | L. R. Wright |
1987 | A Dark-Adapted Eye | Barbara Vine |
1988 | Old Bones | Aaron Elkins |
1989 | A Cold Red Sunrise | Stuart M. Kaminsky |
1990 | Black Cherry Blues | James Lee Burke |
1991 | New Orleans Mourning | Julie Smith |
1992 | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | Lawrence Block |
1993 | Bootlegger’s Daughter | Margaret Maron |
1994 | The Sculptress | Minette Walters |
1995 | The Red Scream | Mary Willis Walker |
1996 | Come to Grief | Dick Francis |
1997 | The Chatham School Affair | Thomas H. Cook |
1998 | Cimarron Rose | James Lee Burke |
1999 | Mr. White’s Confession | Robert Clark |
2000 | Bones | Jan Burke |
2001 | The Bottoms | Joe R. Lansdale |
2002 | Silent Joe | T. Jefferson Parker |
2003 | Winter and Night | S. J. Rozan |
2004 | Resurrection Men | Ian Rankin |
2005 | California Girl | T. Jefferson Parker |
2006 | Citizen Vince | Jess Walter |
2007 | The Janisarry Tree | Jason Goodwin |
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