John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize that was awarded annually between 1942 and 2010 to the best work in English (fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama) by an author under 35 from the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth .
The award was established in 1942 by Jane Oliver, widow of the young writer John Llewellyn Rhys , who died in World War II. From 1987 to 2002 the prize was awarded by the Mail on Sunday . After a scandal at the award ceremony in 2003 - the award winner Hari Kunzru had rejected the award as a protest against the political orientation of the paper - Booktrust , an independent charity and reading promotion organization, took over the award ceremony.
The prize has not been awarded since 2010 for financial reasons.
Award winners
- 1942: Michael Richey , Sunk by a Mine
- 1943: Morwenna Donnelly , Beauty for Ashes
- 1944: Alun Lewis , The Last Inspection
- 1945: James Aldridge , The Sea Eagle
- 1946: Oriel Malet , My Bird Sings
- 1947: Anne-Marie Walters , Moondrop to Gascony
- 1948: Richard Mason , The Wind Cannot Read
- 1949: Emma Smith , Maiden's Trip
- 1950: Kenneth Allsop , Adventure Lit Their Star
- 1951: Elizabeth Jane Howard , The Beautiful Visit
- 1952: No award ceremony
- 1953: Rachel Trickett , The Return Home
- 1954: Tom Stacey , The Hostile Sun
- 1955: John Wiles , The Moon to Play With
- 1956: John Hearne , Voices Under the Window
- 1957: Ruskin Bond , The Room on the Roof
- 1958: VS Naipaul , The Mystic Masseur
- 1959: Dan Jacobson , A Long Way from London
- 1960: David Caute , At Fever Pitch
- 1961: David Storey , Flight Into Camden
- 1962: Robert Rhodes James , An Introduction to the House of Commons and Edward Lucie-Smith , A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems
- 1963: Peter Marshall , Two Lives
- 1964: Nell Dunn , Up the Junction
- 1965: Julian Mitchell , The White Father
- 1966: Margaret Drabble , The Millstone
- 1967: Anthony Masters , The Seahorse
- 1968: Angela Carter , The Magic Toyshop
- 1969: Melvyn Bragg , Without a City Wall
- 1970: Angus Calder , The People's War
- 1971: Shiva Naipaul , Fireflies
- 1972: Susan Hill , The Albatross
- 1973: Peter Smalley , A Warm Gun
- 1974: Hugh Fleetwood , The Girl Who Passed for Normal
- 1975: David Hare , Knuckle and Tim Jeal , Cushing's Crusade
- 1976: No award ceremony
- 1977: Richard Cork , Vorticism & Abstract Art in the First Machine Age
- 1978: AN Wilson , The Sweets of Pimlico
- 1979: Peter Boardman , The Shining Mountain
- 1980: Desmond Hogan , The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea
- 1981: AN Wilson , The Laird of Abbotsford
- 1982: William Boyd , An Ice-Cream War
- 1983: Lisa Saint Aubin de Terán , The Slow Train to Milan
- 1984: Andrew Motion , Dangerous Play
- 1985: John Milne , Out of the Blue
- 1986: Tim Parks , Loving Roger
- 1987: Jeanette Winterson , The Passion , German desire
- 1988: Matthew Yorke , The March Fence
- 1989: Claire Harman , Sylvia Townsend Warner
- 1990: Ray Monk , Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
- 1991: AL Kennedy , Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains
- 1992: Matthew Kneale , Sweet Thames
- 1993: Jason Goodwin , On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul
- 1994: Jonathan Coe , What a Carve Up!
- 1995: Melanie McGrath , Motel Nirvana
- 1996: Nicola Barker , Heading Inland
- 1997: Phil Whitaker , Eclipse of the Sun
- 1998: Peter Ho Davies , The Ugliest House in the World
- 1999: David Mitchell , Ghostwritten
- 2000: Edward Platt , Leadville
- 2001: Susanna Jones , The Earthquake Bird
- 2002: Hari Kunzru , The Impressionist (price not accepted)
- 2002: Mary Laven , Virgins of Venice (nominee)
- 2003: Charlotte Mendelson , Daughters of Jerusalem
- 2004: Jonathan Trigell , Boy A
- 2005: Uzodinma Iweala , Beasts of No Nation
- 2006/2007: Sarah Hall , The Carhullan Army
- 2008: Henry Hitchings , The Secret Life of Words
- 2009: Evie Wyld , After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
- 2010: Amy Sackville , The Still Point
Web links
- The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize , list of winners and explanations of the JLR Prize on the Foyles bookstore website
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Website of the Book Trust for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Archive of the list of winners, Booktrust: Previous winners of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize ( Memento from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Remarks
- ^ Fiachra Gibbons, Claire Armitstead: Author rejects prize from 'anti-migrant' newspaper , The Guardian, November 21, 2003; Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ Alison Flood: John Llewellyn Rhys 'suspended' prize , The Guardian, June 29, 2011; Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ Fiachra Gibbons, Claire Armitstead: Author rejects prize from 'anti-migrant' newspaper , The Guardian, November 21, 2003; Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ Virgins of Venice wins Kunzru's rejected prize , The Guardian, December 11, 2003; Retrieved July 7, 2017.