David Higham Prize for Fiction

The David Higham Prize for Fiction was inaugurated in 1975 to mark the 80th birthday of David Higham, literary agent, and was awarded annually to a citizen of the Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa for a first novel or book of short stories. It was cancelled in 1999 due to "the lack of publicity its winners received."[1]

Past winners

  • 1975 - Jane Gardam - Black Faces, White Faces and Matthew Vaughan - Chalky
  • 1976 - Caroline Blackwood - The Stepdaughter
  • 1977 - Patricia Finney - A Shadow of Gulls
  • 1978 - Leslie Norris - Sliding: Short Stories
  • 1979 - John Harvey - The Plate Shop
  • 1980 - Ted Harriot - Keep On Running
  • 1981 - Christopher Hope - A Separate Development
  • 1982 - Glyn Hughes - Where I Used to Play on the Green
  • 1983 - R. M. Lamming - The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti
  • 1984 - James Buchan - A Parish of Rich Women
  • 1985 - Patricia Ferguson - Family Myths and Legends
  • 1986 - Jim Crace - Continent
  • 1987 - Adam Zameenzad - The Thirteenth House
  • 1988 - Carol Birch - Life in the Palace
  • 1989 - Tim O'Grady - Motherland[2]
  • 1990 - Russell Celyn Jones - Soldiers and Innocents[3]
  • 1991 - John Loveday - Halo[4]
  • 1992 - Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia[5]
  • 1993 - Nicola Barker - Love Your Enemies[6]
  • 1994 - Fred D'Aguiar - The Longest Memory[7]
  • 1995 - Vikram Chandra - Red Earth and Pouring Rain[8]
  • 1996 - Linda Grant - The Cast Iron Shore[9]
  • 1997 - Ronald Wright - A Scientific Romance[10]
  • 1998 - Gavin Kramer - Shopping[11]

References

  • Awards up to 1988: Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd ISBN 0-85365-558-8
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