Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize that has been awarded since 1963 in honor of Geoffrey Faber , the founder and first chairman of the British publishing house Faber & Faber .
Works by authors under the age of 40 from the United Kingdom , the Commonwealth of Nations , Ireland and South Africa are eligible for the award ceremony . The prize is awarded annually in early winter, retrospectively for the previous year, alternately to volumes of poetry (in even years) and prose works (in uneven years). The prize, worth £ 1500 (2017), goes to the work in verse or prose that was first published in the UK in the two years before the award ceremony and which the jury considers to be the best literary achievement.
The jury, which consists of three critics, is nominated by editors or editors from various journals and magazines, who regularly discuss verse and prose works.
Award winners
- 1964: Christopher Middleton for Torse. 3 Poems 1949–1961 and George MacBeth for The Broken Places. Poems
- 1965: Frank Tuohy for The Ice Saints
- 1966: Jon Silkin for Nature Within Man
- 1967: William McIlvanney for Remedy is None and John Noone for The Man with the Chocolate Egg
- 1968: Seamus Heaney for Death of a Naturalist
- 1969: Piers Paul Read for The Junkers
- 1970: Geoffrey Hill for King Log
- 1971: James Gordon Farrell for Troubles
- 1972: Tony Harrison for The Loiners
- 1973: David Storey for Pasmore
- 1974: John Fuller for Cannibals and Missionaries and Epistles to Several Persons
- 1975: Richard B. Wright for In the Middle of a Life
- 1976: Douglas Dunn for Love or Nothing
- 1977: Carolyn Slaughter for The Story of the Weasel
- 1978: David Harsent for Dreams of the Dead and Kit Wright for The Bear Looked Over the Mountain
- 1979: Timothy Mo for The Monkey King
- 1980: Hugo Williams for Love-Life and George Szirtes for The Slant Door
- 1981: JM Coetzee for Waiting for the Barbarians
- 1982: Paul Muldoon for Why Brownlee Left and Tom Paulin for The Strange Museum
- 1983: Graham Swift for Shuttlecock
- 1984: James Fenton for In Memory of War: Poems 1968-83
- 1985: Julian Barnes for Flaubert's Parrot
- 1986: David Scott for A Quiet Gathering
- 1987: Guy Vanderhaeghe for Man Descending
- 1988: Michael Hofmann for Acrimony: Poems
- 1989: David Profumo for Sea Music
- 1990: Michael Donaghy for Shibboleth
- 1991: Carol Birch for The Fog Line
- 1992: Paul Muldoon for Madoc: A Mystery
- 1993: Will Self for The Quantity Theory of Insanity
- 1994: John Burnside for Feast Days
- 1995: Livi Michael for Their Angel Reach
- 1996: Kathleen Jamie for The Queen of Sheba
- 1997: Emily Perkins for Not Her Real Name
- 1998: Don Paterson for God's Gift to Women
- 1999: Gavin Kramer for shopping
- 2000: Kathleen Jamie for Jizzen
- 2001: Trezza Azzopardi for The Hiding Place
- 2002: Greta Stoddart for At Home in the Dark
- 2003: Justin Hill for The Drink and Dream Teahouse
- 2004: Glyn Maxwell for The Nerve: Poems
- 2005: David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas
- 2006: Alice Oswald for Woods Etc.
- 2007: Edward Docx for Self Help
- 2008: Nick Laird for On Purpose
- 2009: David Szalay for London and the South-East
- 2010: Kona Macphee for Perfect Blue
- 2011: Bellinda McKeon for Solace
- 2012: Jacob Polley for The Havocs
- 2013: Eimear McBride for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
- 2014: Liz Berry for Black Country and Fiona Benson for Bright Travelers
- 2015: Sara Baume for Spill Simmer Falter Wither
- 2016: Kim Moore for The Art of Falling
- 2017: Gwendoline Riley for First Love
Web links
- The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize at faber.co.uk
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize at librarything.com