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WHSmith Literary Awards
The WHSmith Literary Awards have been in existence since 1959. This award celebrates the most outstanding contributions to literature by a Commonwealth or UK citizen. This British prize does not have an age limit for the author. Entries are allowed from any subject or genre. The award is presented in April. The current cash prize is £10,000.
2002 Ian McEwan for Atonement | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Large Print | e-book Microsoft Reader | e-book Adobe Reader
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2002 Shortlist | Past Winners
Ian McEwan for Atonement | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Large Print | e-book Microsoft Reader | e-book Adobe Reader
P. D. James Death in Holy
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Winfried Georg Sebald for Austerlitz | Hardcover | Paperback | e-book Microsoft | e-book Adobe
Niall Griffiths Sheepshaggers (I would think the title would ensure that Griffiths will not win - in my not so humble opinion)
Francis Cottam Firefighter: A Novel of War
2001
Philip Roth for The Human Stain
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Human Stain won the PEN/Faulkner in 2001. Roth also won the
PEN/Faulkner in 1994 for Operation Shylock
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1998
Pulitzer Prize winner for American Pastoral
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Goodbye, Columbus won the
National Book Award in 1960 |
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2000 Melvyn Bragg The Soldier's Return | Hardcover
Zadie Smith:The 2000 WHSmith Award for New Talent. In 2000, Zadie Smith's first novel, White Teeth, won eight major literary awards. List of Awards
1999 Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print
1998 Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid | Paperback 1997 Whitbread Book of the Year
1997 Orlando Figes A People's Tragedy
1996 Simon Schama Landscape and Memory
1995 Alice Munro Open Secrets | Hardcover | Paperback
1994 Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy
1993 Michèle Roberts Daughters of the House
1992 Thomas Pakenham The Scramble for Africa
1991 Derek Walcott Nobel Prize for Literature 1992, for Omeros | Hardcover | Paperback
1990 V S Pritchett A Careless Widow and Other Stories
1989 Christopher Hill A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People - John Bunyan and His Church
1988 Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore
1987 Elizabeth Jennings Collected Poems 1953 - 1985
1986 Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist
1985 David Hughes The Pork Butcher
1984 Philip Larkin Required Writing
1983 A N Wilson Wise Virgin
1982 George Clare Last Waltz in Vienna
1981 Isabel Colegate The Shooting Party
1980 Thom Gunn Selected Poems
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1979 Mark Girouard Life in the English Country House
1978 Patrick Leigh Fermor A Time of Gifts
1977 Ronald Lewin Slim: The Standardbearer
1976 Seamus Heaney Nobel Prize for Literature 1995, North
1975 Jon Stallworthy Wilfred Owen
1974 Anthony Powell Temporary Kings
1973 Brian Moore Catholics
1972 Kathleen Raine The Lost Country
1971 Nan Fairbrother New Lives, New Landscapes
1970 The
French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles |
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1969 Robert Gittings John Keats
1968 V S Naipul Nobel Prizewinner 2001, for Mimic Men | Paperback
1967 Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso
Sea | Out of Print
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1966 R C Hutchinson A Child
Possessed | Out of Print
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1965 Leonard Woolf Beginning
Again | Out of Print
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1964 Ernst H Gombrich Meditations on a Hobby-Horse
1963 Gabriel Fielding The Birthday King
1962 J. R. Ackerley We Think the World of You
1961
Nadine
Gordimer, Nobel Prizewinner 1991, for Friday's Footprint
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1960 Laurie Lee Cider with
Rosie | Out of Print
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1959
Patrick White, Nobel Prizewinner 1973, for Voss
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