Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
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The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman publisher Faber & Faber. It recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a Commonwealth author under 40, and is in alternating years awarded to poetry and fiction.
In its first year, the prize was awarded to Christopher Middleton for his poetry.
[edit] Previous winners
- 1964 Christopher Middleton, George MacBeth
- 1965 Frank Tuohy
- 1966 Jon Silkin
- 1967 William McIlvanney, John Noone
- 1968 Seamus Heaney
- 1969 Piers Paul Read
- 1970 Geoffrey Hill
- 1971 J G Farrell
- 1972 Tony Harrison
- 1973 David Storey
- 1974 John Fuller
- 1975 Richard Wright
- 1976 Douglas Dunn
- 1977 Carolyn Slaughter
- 1978 David Harsent, Kit Wright
- 1979 Timothy Mo
- 1980 Hugo Williams, George Szirtes
- 1981 J M Coetzee
- 1982 Tom Paulin, Paul Muldoon
- 1983 Graham Swift
- 1984 James Fenton
- 1985 Julian Barnes
- 1986 David Scott
- 1987 Guy Vanderhaeghe
- 1988 Michael Hofmann
- 1989 David Profumo
- 1990 Michael Donaghy
- 1991 Carol Birch
- 1992 Paul Muldoon
- 1993 Will Self
- 1994 John Burnside
- 1995 Livi Michael
- 1996 Kathleen Jamie
- 1997 Emily Perkins
- 1998 Don Paterson
- 1999 Gavin Kramer
- 2000 Kathleen Jamie
- 2001 Trezza Azzopardi
- 2002 Greta Stoddart
- 2003 Justin Hill
- 2004 Glyn Maxwell
- 2005 David Mitchell
- 2006 Alice Oswald
- 2007 Edward Docx