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. "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. 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. 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. "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.

References

• Europa Publications (2 August 2004). International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-135-35519-7.
• Dominic Head (26 January 2006). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-83179-6.
• Mohit K. Ray, ed. (1 September 2007). The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. ISBN   978-81-269-0832-5.
• Anne Strachan (1989). Prizewinning Literature: UK literary award winners. Library Association Publishing. ISBN   978-0-85365-558-9.

External links

• The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize website