Guardian Fiction Prize

Given by The Guardian

Other Names: Guardian Fiction Award
40 Works 23,406 Books 542 Reviews ½ 3.9

In 1999 this prize was replaced by the Guardian First Book Award which had different criteria.

Stages:
All, Winner (35), Runner-up (1), Shortlist (4)
Years:
All, 2002 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (3), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (2), 1982 (1), 1981 (2), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (2), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1)

Winner 35

WorkYear
Trumpet by Jackie Kay1998
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels1997
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane1996
Heart's Journey in Winter by James Buchan1995
Debatable Land by Candia McWilliam1994
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker1993
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray1992
The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd1991
Shape-Shifter by Pauline Melville1990
Rosehill: Portraits from a Midlands City by Carol Lake1989
Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann1988
The Levels by Peter Benson1987
Continent by Jim Crace1986
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd1985
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard1984
Waterland by Graham Swift1983
Where I Used to Play on the Green by Glyn Hughes1982
Kepler by John Banville1981
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr1980
The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera1979
The Murderer by Roy Heath1978
Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan1978
The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock1977
Falstaff by Robert Nye1976
Friends and Romans by Sylvia Clayton1975
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge1974
In the Country of the Skin by Peter Redgrove1973
G. by John Berger1972
The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy1971
When Did You Last See Your Father? by Margaret Blount1970
Poor Lazarus by Maurice Leitch1969
A song and dance, by P. J. Kavanagh1968
Winter Journey by Eva Figes1967
The Dear Green Place by Archie Hind1966
Crumb Borne by Clive Barry1965

Runner-up 1

WorkYear
Aisha by Ahdaf Soueif1983

Shortlist 4

WorkYear
Climbing a Monkey Puzzle Tree by Karen Wallace2002
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri1991
Blood by Janice Galloway1991
Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty1981

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