Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize

The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize is a literary award for eight British writers of outstanding works of fiction, who each receive £5,000.[1]

Fiction Uncovered was established in 2011 by The Literary Platform with funding from Arts Council England, and became the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize with sponsorship from the Jerwood Foundation from 2014.[citation needed]

Past winners

Prize winners
Year Author Title Ref.
2011 Lindsay Clarke The Water Theatre
Robert Edric The London Satyr
Catherine Hall The Proof of Love
Sarah Moss Night Waking
Chris Paling Nimrod's Shadow
Tim Pears Disputed Land
Ray Robinson Forgetting Zoë
Jake Wallis Simons The English German Girl
2012 Peter Benson Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke
Cressida Connelly My Former Heart
Jill Dawson Lucky Bunny
Tibor Fischer Crushed Mexican Spiders
Doug Johnstone Hit and Run
Susanna Jones When Nights Were Cold
David Park The Light of Amsterdam
Dan Rhodes This Is Life
2013 Lucy Caldwell All the Beggars Riding
Anthony Cartwright How I Killed Margaret Thatcher
Niven Govinden Black Bread White Beer
Nikita Lalwani The Village
Nell Leyshon The Colour of Milk
James Meek The Heart Broke In
Amy Sackville Orkney
Rupert Thomson Secrecy
2014 Ben Brooks Lolito [2][3]
Bernardine Evaristo Mr Loverman [2][3]
Lesley Glaister Little Egypt [2][3]
Cynan Jones The Dig [2][3]
Gareth Roberts Whatever Happened to Billy Parks? [2][3]
Naomi Wood Mrs. Hemingway [2][3]
Gerard Woodward Vanishing [2][3]
Evie Wyld All The Birds, Singing [2][3][4]
2015 Susan Barker The Incarnations [5]
Carys Davies The Redemption of Galen Pike [5]
Jo Mazelis Significance [5]
Grace McCleen The Offering [5]
Bethan Roberts Mother Island [5]
Lavie Tidhar A Man Lies Dreaming [5]
Emma Jane Unsworth Animals [5]
David Whitehouse Mobile Library [5]

References

  1. ^ Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize: Winners Announced Archived 6 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Haig, Matt (20 June 2014). "What the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize reveals". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Awards: Jerwood Fiction Uncovered". Shelf Awareness. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  4. ^ Flood, Alison (20 June 2014). "Evie Wyld wins prize double at Encore and Jerwood Fiction Uncovered awards". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h "Awards: Jerwood Fiction Uncovered". Shelf Awareness. 19 June 2015. Archived from the original on 27 October 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2024.