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The Winners are announced in June | Guidelines and Submissions | 2002
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards
The Richard Imison Memorial Award
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
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The Caedmon Collection of English Poetry
The Eric Gregory Awards Established by the late Eric Gregory, are for the encouragement of promising British poets under the age of 30 and living in the UK. In 1999 £21,000 was distributed on the strength of work submitted and taking into account the means of each winner.
2002 Three awards of £5,000 each: Caroline Bird, Christopher James, Jacob Polley
Two awards of £3,000 each: Luke Heeley, Judith Lal
Three awards of £1,000 each: David L. Briggs, Eleanor Rees, Kathryn Simmonds
2001 Leontia Flynn, Thomas Warner, Tishani Doshi, Patrick MacKie Excerpts from the Memoirs of a Fool Hardcover | Paperback, Kathryn Gray, Sally Read
2000 Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn Pilots and Navigators*, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard The Heavy-Petting Zoo*
The McKitterick Prize Endowed by the late Tom McKitterick. It is given for a first adult novel in English, published in the UK or unpublished, by an author over the age of 40. £4,000
2002 Manil Suri, £4,000 for The
Death of Vishnu |
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McKitterick Prize 2002 This is a beautiful book!
2001 Giles Waterfield for The Long Afternoon
2000 Chris Dolan for Ascension Day*
The Sagittarius Prize Awarded for a first novel in English, published in the UK, by an author over the age of 60. £2,000
2002 Zvi Jagendorf, £2,000 for Wolfy and the Strudelbakers
2001 Michael Richardson for The Pig Bin
2000 David Crackanthorpe - Stolen Marches | Paperback
The Somerset Maugham Awards Founded by the late Somerset Maugham to enable British authors under the age of 35 to enrich their writing by foreign travel. They are given on the strength of a book published in the UK. £12,000
2002 Two awards of £6,000 each are given to:
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Charlotte Hobson for Black Earth City
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Marcel Theroux for The Paperchase
2001 Edward Platt for Leadville
Ben Rice for Pobby And Dingan | Hardcover | e-book (Microsoft) | e-book (Adobe)
2000 Bella Bathurst for The Lighthouse Stevensons*
Annual awards made to enable British writers to keep in touch with colleagues abroad. They are non-competitive and submissions are not accepted. £6,000
2002 Three awards of £2,000 each are given to:
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Frank Kuppner
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David Park
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George Szirtes.
2001 Alan Judd, author
Christina Koning, author
Tessa Ransford, poet
Maurice Riordan, poet
2000 Robert Edric longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002
Georgina Hammick
Walter Perrie
Grace Ingoldby
The Richard Imison Memorial Award For the best dramatic work broadcast by a writer new to radio. £1,000
2002 Rhiannon Tise wins £2,000 for The Waltzer
2001 Murray Gold for Electricity
2000 Peter Morgan for A Matter of Interpretation
The Encore Awards Sponsored by Miss Lucy Astor, is a prize for second novels in English and first published in the UK.
2000 Claire Messud for The Last Life* £2,500
John Burnside for The Mercy Boys £2,500
Matt Thorne for Eight Minutes Idle £2,500
Phil Whitaker for Triangulation* £2,500
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
2000 Sarah Waters for Affinity | Hardcover | Paperback Winner 2001 American Library Association GLBT Award
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