WH Smith Literary Award
The WH Smith Literary Award is a literary prize donated in 1959 by the UK's leading book and magazine chain WHSmith . The aim of the literary prize was described as "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth"; Originally, only residents of the United Kingdom , the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland were allowed to enter the competition; most recently, foreign works in translation and works by authors from the United States were also accepted. The last three winners were the Americans ( Philip Roth , Donna Tartt, and Richard Powers ), and 2005 was the final year that an award winner was recognized.
Award winners
1959 Patrick White , Voss
1960 Laurie Lee , Cider With Rosie
1961 Nadine Gordimer , Friday's Footprint
1962 JR Ackerley , We Think the World of You
1963 Gabriel Fielding , The Birthday King
1964 Ernst H. Gombrich , Meditations on a Hobby-Horse , dt. : Meditations about a hobby horse
1965 Leonard Sidney Woolf , Beginning Again (autobiography)
1966 Ray Coryton Hutchinson , A Child Possessed
1967 Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea , German Sargasso Sea - In the sea of passion
1968 VS Naipaul , The Mimic Men
1969 Robert Gittings , John Keats: the Living Year
1970 John Fowles , The French Lieutenant's Woman , German The Beloved of the French Lieutenant
1971 Nan Fairbrother , New Lives, New Landscapes
1972 Kathleen Raine , The Lost Country
1973 Brian Moore , Catholics , German: Catholics
1974 Anthony Powell , Temporary Kings
1975 Jon Stallworthy , Wilfred Owen
1976 Seamus Heaney , North
1977 Ronald Lewin , Slim: The Standardbearer
1978 Patrick Leigh Fermor , A Time of Gifts , German: Die Zeit der G evenings - On foot to Constantinople: From Hoek van Holland to the Danube. The first part of the journey.
1979 Mark Girouard , Life in the English Country House
1980 Thom Gunn , Selected Poems 1959-1975
1981 Isabel Colegate , The Shooting Party
1982 George Clare , Last Waltz in Vienna
1983 AN Wilson , Wise Virgin
1984 Philip Larkin , Required Writing
1985 David Hughes , The Pork Butcher
1986 Doris Lessing , The Good Terrorist , dt .: Die Terroristin
1987 Elizabeth Jennings , Collected Poems 1953-1985
1988 Robert Hughes , The Fatal Shore
1989 Christopher Hill , A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church
1990 VS Pritchett , A Careless Widow and Other Stories
1991 Derek Walcott , Omeros (Versepos)
1992 Thomas Parkenham , The Scramble for Africa
1993 Michèle Roberts , Daughters of the House
1994 Vikram Seth , A Suitable Boy , dt .: Eine gute Partie
1995 Alice Munro , Open Secrets , German: Open Secrets
1996 Simon Schama , Landscape and Memory , German: The Dream of the Wilderness: Nature as Imagination
1997 Orlando Figes , A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - 1 891-1924 , German: The Tragedy of a People
1998 Ted Hughes , Tales From Ovid
1999 Beryl Bainbridge , Master Georgie , German: Master Georgie
2000 Melvyn Bragg , The Soldier's Return
2001 Philip Roth , The Human Stain , German: The human Makel
2002 Ian McEwan , Atonement , German: Atonement (Roman)
2003 Donna Tartt , The Little Friend , German: The Little Friend
2004 Richard Powers , The Time of Our Singing , German: The Sound of Time
2005 Philip Roth , The Plot Against America , German: Conspiracy against America
WH Smith Mind-Boggling Book Award
For several years, WH Smith also offered a children's book award. The jurors were children between nine and twelve years of age and the intention was to promote books that were “accessible to children in content and price and that offered gripping reading pleasure” (“accessible to children in content and price, as well as offering a gripping read. ")
The winners were:
1993 Philip Ridley , Kindlekrax
1994 Malorie Blackman , Hacker
1995 Maggie Prince , Memoirs of a Dangerous Alien
1996 Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons , German: Salamancas Reise
Individual evidence
- ^ WH Smith Literary Award at LibraryThing
- ↑ Mind-Boggling Book Award ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
