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

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

  1. ^ a b c "The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". Faber.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  2. ^ Natasha Onwuemezi (30 November 2017). "Kim Moore wins 2016 Geoffrey Faber prize". The Bookseller.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1070.
  5. ^ "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.)
  6. ^ Dinah Birch (24 September 2009). The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 1014. ISBN 978-0-19-280687-1.
  7. ^ "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.)
  8. ^ a b Alison Flood (31 March 2009). "Nick Laird follows idol Heaney to Faber prize win". The Guardian.
  9. ^ Head 2006, p. 922.
  10. ^ "Hill, Sir Geoffrey (William)". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
  11. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 720.
  12. ^ Ray 2007, p. 232.
  13. ^ "Storey, David Malcolm". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
  14. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 557
  15. ^ "Dunn, Prof. Douglas Eaglesham". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
  16. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 684.
  17. ^ Ray 2007, p. 373.
  18. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1666.
  19. ^ "Szirtes, George Gábor Nicholas". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
  20. ^ 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.
  21. ^ a b "Muldoon, Prof. Paul". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
  22. ^ "Paulin, Thomas Neilson". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ Ray 2007, p. 35.
  25. ^ 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.
  26. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 732.
  27. ^ Joshua Mehigan (April 2005). "The interior of a heron's egg: Michael Donaghy, 1954–2004". The New Criterion. 23. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  28. ^ Head 2006, p. 104.
  29. ^ "Readers suggest the 10 best short-story collections". The Observer. 22 October 2014.
  30. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 242.
  31. ^ 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.
  32. ^ Head 2006, p. 739.
  33. ^ 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.
  34. ^ Katy Guest (16 May 2008). "Emily Perkins: The benefit of distance". The Independent. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  35. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1223.
  36. ^ Leza Lowitz (19 December 2000). "Making mush of Meadowlark". The Japan Times. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  37. ^ Fiona Sampson (1 January 2004). Creative Writing in Health and Social Care. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-84310-136-9.
  38. ^ "Azzopardi wins writing prize". BBC News. 1 November 2001.
  39. ^ "Deep purple: how a humble weed inspired a collection of poetry". BBC Devon. 20 November 2008. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  40. ^ Ray 2007, p. 351.
  41. ^ "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.
  42. ^ "Poetry in the News: 2007". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  43. ^ Leyla Sanai (10 April 2011). "The Devil's Garden, By Edward Docx". The Independent. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  44. ^ David Szalay (11 July 2014). "Hampstead Heath". The Financial Times.
  45. ^ Victoria Gallagher (1 June 2010). "Debut author Szalay wins Geoffrey Faber prize". The Bookseller.
  46. ^ Charlotte Williams (24 June 2011). "Macphee wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Bookseller.
  47. ^ Joshua Farrington (19 July 2012). "McKeon wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Bookseller.
  48. ^ Joshua Farrington (21 June 2013). "Polley wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Bookseller.
  49. ^ Beth Webb (21 November 2014). "Eimear McBride wins the 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Daily Telegraph.
  50. ^ "Eimear McBride wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Irish Times. 21 November 2014.
  51. ^ "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.
  52. ^ "Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Archived 6 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine". booksirelandmagazine.com. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  53. ^ Natasha Onwuemezi (30 November 2017). "Kim Moore wins 2016 Geoffrey Faber prize". The Bookseller.
  54. ^ "Gwendoline Riley wins the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2017 for fiction – Faber & Faber Blog". Faber & Faber. Faber. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

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