Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

Given by Faber & Faber

56 Works 32,141 Books 1,034 Reviews ½ 4.0
Founded in 1963 as a memorial to the founder and first Chairman of the publishing firm Faber & Faber. The prize is awarded annually, alternating between recognizing a volume of verse and a volume show more of fiction. It is given to "that volume of verse or prose fiction first published originally in this country [the UK] during the two years preceding the year in which the award is given which is, in the opinion of the judges, of the greatest literary merit." The 1964 prize was for poetry. The winner must be under 40 years of age and a citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies, the Commonwealth, or the Republic of Ireland or South Africa. The three judges are reviewers nominated by editors or literary editors of newspapers and magazines which regularly review poetry and fiction. The value of the prize is £1000. show less
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WorkYear
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
2018
The Art of Falling by Kim Moore
2016
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
2015
Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson
2014
Black Country by Liz Berry
2014
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
2013
The Havocs by Jacob Polley
2012
Solace by Belinda McKeon
2011
Perfect Blue by Kona Macphee
2010
London and the South-East by David Szalay
2009
On Purpose by Nick Laird
2008
Self Help by Edward Docx
2007
Woods etc. by Alice Oswald
2006
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2005
The Nerve: Poems by Glyn Maxwell
2004
The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill
2003
At Home in the Dark by Greta Stoddart
2002
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
2001
Jizzen by Kathleen Jamie
2000
Shopping by Gavin Kramer
1999
God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson
1998
Not Her Real Name by Emily Perkins
1997
Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie
1996
Their Angel Reach by Livi Michael
1995
Feast Days (Secker & Warburg poetry) by John Burnside
1994
The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self
1993
Madoc: A Mystery by Paul Muldoon
1992
The Fog Line by Carol Birch
1991
Shibboleth (Oxford Paperbacks) by Michael Donaghy
1990
Sea Music by David Profumo
1989
Acrimony by Michael Hofmann
1988
Man descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe
1987
Quiet Gathering by David Scott
1986
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
1985
The memory of war: Poems, 1968-1982 by James Fenton
1984
Waterland by Graham Swift
1983
Why Brownlee Left by Paul Muldoon
1982
Shuttlecock by Graham Swift
1981
Love-life by Hugo Williams
1980
The Monkey King by Timothy Mo
1979
Dreams of the dead by David Harsent
1978
The story of the weasel by Carolyn Slaughter
1977
Love or Nothing by Douglas Dunn
1976
In the Middle of a Life by Richard B. Wright
1975
Cannibals and Missionaries by John Fuller
1974
Pasmore by David Storey
1973
The Loiners by Tony Harrison
1972
Troubles by J. G. Farrell
1971
King Log by Geoffrey Hill
1970
The Junkers by Piers Paul Read
1969
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
1968
Remedy is None by William McIlvanney
1967
The Man with a Chocolate Egg by John Noone
1967
Nature with man by Jon Silkin
1966
The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy
1965
torse 3: poems 1949-1961 by Christopher Middleton
1964

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