Literary award · United Kingdom · since 1999
Guardian First Book Award
British literature award. Established 1999 in United Kingdom.
About Guardian First Book Award
The Guardian First Book Award was an annual literary award presented by The Guardian newspaper, recognising a book by a new writer. It was established in 1999, replacing the Guardian Fiction Award or Guardian Fiction Prize that the newspaper had sponsored from 1965. The Guardian First Book Award was discontinued after the 2015 award.
From the Wikipedia article “Guardian First Book Award”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Recent winners
| Year | Winner | Winning work |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Colin Barrett | — |
| 2011 | Siddhartha Mukherjee | — |
| 2009 | Petina Gappah | — |
| 2008 | Alex Ross | — |
| 2007 | Dinaw Mengestu | — |
| 2007 | The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears | — |
| 2006 | Yiyun Li | — |
| 2003 | Robert Macfarlane | — |
| 2002 | Jonathan Safran Foer | — |
| 2001 | Chris Ware | Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth |
| 2000 | Zadie Smith | White Teeth |
| 1999 | Philip Gourevitch | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families |
| — | Philip Gourevitch | — |
| — | An Elegy for Easterly | — |
From Wikidata; the list may be incomplete for some years.
Eligibility and entering
Check the official rules of the Guardian First Book Award for the current eligibility window, accepted formats, residency or language requirements and any entry fee. For most established prizes the publisher submits on the author's behalf, often with a limit on entries per imprint.
If you are self-published, look for an explicit statement that independently published books are accepted, and budget for entry fees and copies for judges.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q153296 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).