Geoffrey Faber Memorial 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ^ "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. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. 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.
References
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- Dominic Head (26 January 2006). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83179-6.
- Mohit K. Ray, ed. (1 September 2007). The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. ISBN 978-81-269-0832-5.
- Anne Strachan (1989). Prizewinning Literature: UK literary award winners. Library Association Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85365-558-9.