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British literary prize
The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British
literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to
Geoffrey Faber , founder and first Chairman of the
publisher
Faber & Faber . It recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a United Kingdom, Irish or Commonwealth author under 40 years of age on the date of publication, and is in alternating years awarded to
poetry and
fiction (including short stories).
[1]
The prize is worth £1500.
[2]
The prize jury, comprising three reviewers, is selected by literary editors of journals and newspapers that regularly publish reviews of poetry and fiction.
[3]
In its first year, the prize was awarded to
Christopher Middleton and
George MacBeth for poetry. The first win by a short-story collection, The Quantity Theory of Insanity by
Will Self , was in 1993.
[3]
Winners
Year
Author
Title
Section
Jury
Reference
1964
Christopher Middleton
Torse 3 Poems 1949–1961
Poetry
[4]
1964
George MacBeth
The Broken Places: Poems
Poetry
[5]
1965
Frank Tuohy
The Ice Saints
Fiction
[6]
1966
Jon Silkin
Nature Within Man
Poetry
[7]
1967
William McIlvanney
Remedy is None
Fiction
[1]
1967
John Noone
The Man with the Chocolate Egg
Fiction
1968
Seamus Heaney
Death of a Naturalist
Poetry
[8]
1969
Piers Paul Read
The Junkers
Fiction
[9]
1970
Geoffrey Hill
King Log
Poetry
[10]
1971
J. G. Farrell
Troubles
Fiction
[11]
1972
Tony Harrison
The Loiners
Poetry
[12]
1973
David Storey
Pasmore
Fiction
[13]
1974
John Fuller
Cannibals and Missionaries and Epistles to Several Persons
Poetry
[14]
1975
Richard B. Wright
In the Middle of a Life
Fiction
1976
Douglas Dunn
Love or Nothing
Poetry
[15]
1977
Carolyn Slaughter
The Story of the Weasel
Fiction
1978
David Harsent
Dreams of the Dead
Poetry
[16]
1978
Kit Wright
The Bear Looked Over the Mountain
Poetry
1979
Timothy Mo
The Monkey King
Fiction
[17]
1980
Hugo Williams
Love-Life
Poetry
[18]
1980
George Szirtes
The Slant Door
Poetry
[19]
1981
J. M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians
Fiction
[20]
1982
Paul Muldoon
Why Brownlee Left
Poetry
[21]
1982
Tom Paulin
The Strange Museum
Poetry
[22]
1983
Graham Swift
Shuttlecock
Fiction
[23]
1984
James Fenton
In Memory of War: Poems 1968-83
Poetry
1985
Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
Fiction
[24]
1986
David Scott
A Quiet Gathering
Poetry
1987
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Man Descending
Fiction
[25]
1988
Michael Hofmann
Acrimony: Poems
Poetry
[26]
1989
David Profumo
Sea Music
Fiction
1990
Michael Donaghy
Shibboleth
Poetry
[27]
1991
Carol Birch
The Fog Line
Fiction
[28]
1992
Paul Muldoon
Madoc: A Mystery
Poetry
[21]
1993
Will Self
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Fiction
[29]
1994
John Burnside
Feast Days
Poetry
Helen Dunmore
Nicolas Tredell
Hugo Williams
[30]
[31]
1995
Livi Michael
Their Angel Reach
Fiction
[32]
1996
Kathleen Jamie
The Queen of Sheba
Poetry
[33]
1997
Emily Perkins
Not Her Real Name
Fiction
[34]
1998
Don Paterson
God's Gift to Women
Poetry
Robert Potts
[35]
1999
Gavin Kramer
Shopping
Fiction
[36]
2000
Kathleen Jamie
Jizzen
Poetry
Christina Patterson
[37]
2001
Trezza Azzopardi
The Hiding Place
Fiction
[38]
2002
Greta Stoddart
At Home in the Dark
Poetry
[39]
2003
Justin Hill
The Drink and Dream Teahouse
Fiction
2004
Glyn Maxwell
The Nerve: Poems
Poetry
[40]
2005
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Fiction
2006
Alice Oswald
Woods Etc.
Poetry
Neil Corcoran ,
Lavinia Greenlaw ,
Ciaran Carson
[41]
[42]
2007
Edward Docx
Self Help
Fiction
[43]
2008
Nick Laird
On Purpose
Poetry
Jo Shapcott ,
Sam Leith ,
Michael Longley
[8]
2009
David Szalay
London and the South-East
Fiction
Kate Summerscale ,
Andrew Miller ,
Boyd Tonkin
[44]
[45]
2010
Kona Macphee
Perfect Blue
Poetry
Kate Kellaway ,
Bernard O'Donoghue ,
Stephen Romer
[1]
[46]
2011
Belinda McKeon
Solace
Fiction
Rachel Cusk ,
Jonathan Ruppin ,
Leo Robson
[47]
2012
Jacob Polley
The Havocs
Poetry
Jean Sprackland ,
Sarah Crown ,
Maurice Riordan
[48]
2013
Eimear McBride
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Fiction
Deirdre Madden ,
Patrick Neale ,
Gaby Wood
[49]
[50]
2014
Fiona Benson
Bright Travellers
Poetry
Julia Copus ,
Ruth Padel ,
Max Porter
[51]
Liz Berry
Black Country
2015
Sara Baume
Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Fiction
[52]
2016
Kim Moore
The Art of Falling
Poetry
Gillian Clarke , Tom Gatti,
Katharine Towers
[53]
2017
Gwendoline Riley
First Love
Fiction
Lorien Kite, Susie Nicklin,
Evie Wyld
[54]
Notes
^
a
b
c
"The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize" . Faber.co.uk. Archived from
the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2014 .
^ Natasha Onwuemezi (30 November 2017).
"Kim Moore wins 2016 Geoffrey Faber prize" .
The Bookseller .
^
a
b Andrew Maunder (1 January 2007).
The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story . Infobase Publishing. p. 23.
ISBN
978-0-8160-7496-9 .
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 , p. 1070.
^ "MacBeth, George Mann".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/51192 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ Dinah Birch (24 September 2009).
The Oxford Companion to English Literature . Oxford University Press. p. 1014.
ISBN
978-0-19-280687-1 .
^ "Silkin, Jon".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/68498 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
a
b Alison Flood (31 March 2009).
"Nick Laird follows idol Heaney to Faber prize win" . The Guardian .
^ Head 2006, p. 922.
^
"Hill, Sir Geoffrey (William)" . Who's Who 2014 . A&C Black. 2014.
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 , p. 720.
^ Ray 2007, p. 232.
^
"Storey, David Malcolm" . Who's Who 2014 . A&C Black. 2014.
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 557
^
"Dunn, Prof. Douglas Eaglesham" . Who's Who 2014 . A&C Black. 2014.
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 , p. 684.
^ Ray 2007, p. 373.
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1666.
^
"Szirtes, George Gábor Nicholas" . Who's Who 2014 . A&C Black. 2014.
^ Alba della Fazia Amoia; Bettina Liebowitz Knapp (1 January 2004).
Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide . Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 156–.
ISBN
978-0-313-30688-4 .
^
a
b
"Muldoon, Prof. Paul" . Who's Who 2014 . A&C Black. 2014.
^
"Paulin, Thomas Neilson" . Who's Who 2014 . A&C Black. 2014.
^ Philip Tew; Emily Horton; Leigh Wilson (27 February 2014).
The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction . A&C Black. pp. 247–.
ISBN
978-1-4411-6853-5 .
^ Ray 2007, p. 35.
^ Nicholas von Maltzahn (1 January 1991).
"Guy Vanderheghe" . In Jeffrey M. Heath (ed.). Profiles in Canadian Literature 8 . Dundurn. p. 140.
ISBN
978-1-55488-270-0 .
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 , p. 732.
^ Joshua Mehigan (April 2005).
"The interior of a heron's egg: Michael Donaghy, 1954–2004" . The New Criterion . 23 . Retrieved 23 November 2014 .
^ Head 2006, p. 104.
^
"Readers suggest the 10 best short-story collections" . The Observer . 22 October 2014.
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 , p. 242.
^ Colin Stanley (2011).
Around the Outsider: Essays Presented to Colin Wilson on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday . John Hunt Publishing. p. 316.
ISBN
978-1-84694-668-4 .
^ Head 2006, p. 739.
^ Matt McGuire; Colin Nicholson (1 September 2009).
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry . Edinburgh University Press. p. 3.
ISBN
978-0-7486-3626-6 .
^ Katy Guest (16 May 2008).
"Emily Perkins: The benefit of distance" . The Independent . Retrieved 22 November 2014 .
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 , p. 1223.
^ Leza Lowitz (19 December 2000).
"Making mush of Meadowlark" . The Japan Times . Retrieved 22 November 2014 .
^ Fiona Sampson (1 January 2004).
Creative Writing in Health and Social Care . Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 229.
ISBN
978-1-84310-136-9 .
^
"Azzopardi wins writing prize" . BBC News . 1 November 2001.
^
"Deep purple: how a humble weed inspired a collection of poetry" . BBC Devon. 20 November 2008. Retrieved 22 November 2014 .
^ Ray 2007, p. 351.
^
"Dartington poet Alice Oswald wins £25k prize" . Torquay Herald Express . 25 September 2013.
^
"Poetry in the News: 2007" . The Poetry Society. Retrieved 23 November 2014 .
^ Leyla Sanai (10 April 2011).
"The Devil's Garden, By Edward Docx" . The Independent . Retrieved 22 November 2014 .
^ David Szalay (11 July 2014).
"Hampstead Heath" . The Financial Times .
^ Victoria Gallagher (1 June 2010).
"Debut author Szalay wins Geoffrey Faber prize" . The Bookseller .
^ Charlotte Williams (24 June 2011).
"Macphee wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize" . The Bookseller .
^ Joshua Farrington (19 July 2012).
"McKeon wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize" . The Bookseller .
^ Joshua Farrington (21 June 2013).
"Polley wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize" . The Bookseller .
^ Beth Webb (21 November 2014).
"Eimear McBride wins the 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize" .
The Daily Telegraph .
^
"Eimear McBride wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize" . The Irish Times . 21 November 2014.
^
"The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2014 – Faber & Faber Blog" . Faber & Faber . Faber. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2016 .
^ "
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Archived 6 January 2017 at the
Wayback Machine ". booksirelandmagazine.com . Retrieved January 6, 2017.
^ Natasha Onwuemezi (30 November 2017).
"Kim Moore wins 2016 Geoffrey Faber prize" .
The Bookseller .
^
"Gwendoline Riley wins the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2017 for fiction – Faber & Faber Blog" . Faber & Faber . Faber. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2019 .
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