WH Smith Literary Award

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The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the show more British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. show less
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Winner 47

WorkYear
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth2005
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers2004
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt2003
Atonement by Ian McEwan2002
The Human Stain by Philip Roth2001
The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg2000
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge1999
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes1998
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes1997
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama1996
Open Secrets by Alice Munro1995
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth1994
Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts1993
The Scramble for Africa: 1876–1912 by Thomas Pakenham1992
Omeros by Derek Walcott1991
A Careless Widow and Other Stories by V. S. Pritchett1990
A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88 by Christopher Hill1989
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes1988
Collected Poems: 1953-1985 by Elizabeth Jennings1987
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing1986
The Pork Butcher by David Hughes1985
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-82 by Philip Larkin1984
Wise Virgin by A. N. Wilson1983
Last waltz in Vienna by George Clare1982
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate1981
Selected Poems, 1950–1975 by Thom Gunn1980
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard1979
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor1978
Slim: The Standardbearer : A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim (Wordsworth Military Library) by Ronald Lewin1977
North by Seamus Heaney1976
Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy1975
Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell1974
Catholics by Brian Moore1973
The lost country by Kathleen Raine1972
New lives, new landscapes by Nan Fairbrother1971
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles1970
John Keats by Robert Gittings1968
The Mimic Men by V. S. Naipaul1968
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys1967
A Child Possessed by R. C. Hutchinson1966
Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918 by Leonard Woolf1965
Meditations On a Hobby Horse and Other Essays On the Theory of Art by E. H. Gombrich1964
The Birthday King by Gabriel Fielding1963
We Think The World of You by J. R. Ackerley1962
Friday's Footprint and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer1961
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee1960
Voss by Patrick White1959

Shortlist 2

WorkCategoryYear
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling2004
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry PratchettChildren's Literature2002

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The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. (English, Member-written)
discontinued in 2005 (Russian, Member-written)

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