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]
- 1954 – David Unwin – The Governor's Wife
- 1955 – Brian Moore – Judith Hearne (later republished as The Lonely Passion of 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 and Rhidian Brook – The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (shared)
- 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] and Neil Griffiths – Betrayal in Naples[12] (shared)
- 2005 – Henry Shukman – Sandstorm[13]
- 2006 – Nicola Monaghan – The Killing Jar [14]
- 2007 – Segun Afolabi – Goodbye Lucille[15]
- 2009 – Laura Beatty – Pollard[16]
- 2010 – Anthony Quinn – The Rescue Man[17]
- 2011 – Jonathan Kemp – London Triptych
- 2012 – Kevin Barry – City of Bohane[18]
- 2013 – Ros Barber – The Marlowe Papers and I. J. Kay – Mountains of the Moon[19]
- 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[20]
- 2020 – Claire Adam – Golden Child[21]
- 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.
- ^ "Foyles : Fiction, medical, textbooks and more at our London store and online". Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- ^ 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.