John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

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John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Awarded for Literature
Date1942 by Jane Oliver
Country United Kingdom
Presented by • The Mail on Sunday (1987–2002)
 • Booktrust (2003–2010)
Website http://www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes-and-awards/3

The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom. [1] Established in 1942, it was one of the oldest literary awards in the UK. [2]

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Since 2011, the award has been suspended by funding problems. [3] [4] The last award was in 2010. [2]

History

The prize was initiated in 1942 by Jane Oliver in memory of her husband, John Llewellyn Rhys, a young author who was killed on 5 August 1940 while serving as a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force.

From 1987 to 2003, the prize was funded by the Mail on Sunday . The newspaper withdrew in 2003, after the initial winner of 2002 prize, Hari Kunzru, rejected the prize and criticised the Mail of Sunday for "hostility towards black and Asian people" [5] Subsequently, the prize was sponsored by Booktrust, an independent educational charity, but in June 2011 the award was suspended due to funding problems. [2] Booktrust said that it "strongly" intended to bring the award "back with a bang as soon as possible" as it looked for outside funding sources. [2]

In 2010, the winner received £5,000, while the runners-up each received £500. [2]

Winners (1942–1999)

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners, 1942–1999 [6]
YearAuthorTitle ISBN (or OCLC)Ref.
1942 Michael Richey Sunk by a Mine
1943 Morwenna Donnelly Beauty for Ashes OCLC   10175035
1944 Alun Lewis The Last Inspection OCLC   1648392
1945 James Aldridge The Sea Eagle OCLC   1115675
1946 Oriel Malet My Bird Sings OCLC   1550666
1947 Anne-Marie Walters Moondrop to Gascony OCLC   458854780
1948 Richard Mason The Wind Cannot Read OCLC   2188096
1949 Emma Smith Maidens' Trip OCLC   771823005
1950 Kenneth Allsop Adventure Lit Their Star OCLC   77347740
1951 Elizabeth Jane Howard The Beautiful Visit OCLC   1637250
1952No award
1953 Rachel Trickett The Return Home OCLC   21354135
1954 Tom Stacey The Hostile Sun OCLC   2451930
1955 John Wiles The Moon to Play With OCLC   1508671
1956 John Hearne Voices Under the Window OCLC   2175560
1957 Ruskin Bond The Room on the Roof OCLC   1579534
1958 V. S. Naipaul The Mystic Masseur OCLC   47838372 [7]
1959 Dan Jacobson A Long Way from London OCLC   1161266
1960 David Caute At Fever Pitch OCLC   753130422
1961 David Storey Flight into Camden OCLC   1816514
1962 Robert Rhodes James An Introduction to the House of Commons OCLC   1825470
Edward Lucie-Smith A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems OCLC   2469981
1963 Peter Marshall Two Lives OCLC   1301629
1964 Nell Dunn Up the Junction OCLC   1675517
1965 Julian Mitchell The White Father OCLC   1246449 [7]
1966 Margaret Drabble The Millstone OCLC   1355165
1967Anthony MastersThe Seahorse OCLC   1018374
1968 Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop ISBN   978-0-860-68190-8 [7]
1969 Melvyn Bragg Without a City Wall ISBN   978-0-340-43102-3
1970 Angus Calder The People's War ISBN   978-0-712-65284-1
1971 Shiva Naipaul Fireflies ISBN   978-0-140-03150-8 [7]
1972 Susan Hill The Albatross ISBN   978-0-140-03649-7
1973 Peter Smalley A Warm Gun ISBN   978-0-233-96172-9
1974 Hugh Fleetwood The Girl Who Passed for Normal ISBN   978-0-812-87034-3
1975 David Hare Knuckle ISBN   978-0-571-04980-6 [7]
Tim Jeal Cushing's Crusade ISBN   978-0-434-37209-6
1976No award
1977 Richard Cork Vorticism & Abstract Art in the First Machine Age ISBN   978-0-900-40624-9
1978 A. N. Wilson The Sweets of Pimlico ISBN   978-0-140-06697-5 [7]
1979 Peter Boardman The Shining Mountain ISBN   978-0-099-20920-1
1980 Desmond Hogan The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea ISBN   978-0-241-10123-0
1981 A. N. Wilson The Laird of Abbotsford ISBN   978-0-192-11756-4 [7]
1982 William Boyd An Ice-Cream War ISBN   978-0-241-95356-3
1983 Lisa St Aubin de Terán The Slow Train to Milan ISBN   978-0-140-06954-9
1984 Andrew Motion Dangerous Play ISBN   978-0-140-07352-2 [7]
1985John MilneOut of the Blue ISBN   978-0-241-11489-6
1986 Tim Parks Loving Roger ISBN   978-0-802-10016-0
1987 Jeanette Winterson The Passion ISBN   978-0-099-73441-3 [7]
1988 Matthew Yorke The March Fence ISBN   978-0-140-11636-6
1989 Claire Harman Sylvia Townsend Warner ISBN   978-0-701-12938-5
1990 Ray Monk Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius ISBN   978-0-099-88370-8 [7]
1991 A. L. Kennedy Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains ISBN   978-0-099-45006-1
1992 Matthew Kneale Sweet Thames ISBN   978-0-140-29663-1
1993 Jason Goodwin On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul ISBN   978-0-701-13668-0
1994 Jonathan Coe What a Carve Up! ISBN   978-0-141-03329-7 [7]
1995 Melanie McGrath Motel Nirvana ISBN   978-0-006-54715-0
1996 Nicola Barker Heading Inland ISBN   978-0-007-43571-5
1997 Phil Whitaker Eclipse of the Sun ISBN   978-0-753-80948-8
1998 Peter Ho Davies The Ugliest House in the World ISBN   978-0-395-78629-1
1999 David Mitchell Ghostwritten ISBN   978-0-340-73974-7

Winners and shortlists (since 2000)

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners and shortlists, 2000–2010
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2000 Edward Platt Leadville Winner [8]
Julia Leigh The Hunter Finalist
Roddy Lumsden The Book of LoveFinalist
Cole Moreton Hungry for Home Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of IrelandFinalist
Ben Rice Pobby and Dingan Finalist
Zadie Smith White Teeth Finalist
2001 Susanna Jones The Earthquake Bird Winner
Esther Morgan Beyond Calling DistanceFinalist
2002 [lower-alpha 1] Mary Laven Virgins of VeniceWinner [9]
Sonya Hartnett Thursday's Child Finalist [9]
Chloe Hooper A Child's Book of True CrimeFinalist [9]
Mary Laven Virgins of VeniceFinalist [9]
Kamila Shamsie KartographyFinalist [9]
2003 Charlotte Mendelson Daughters of JerusalemWinner [10]
2004 Jonathan Trigell Boy A Winner [11]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus Finalist [12]
Neil Bennun The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct PeopleFinalist [12]
Anthony Cartwright The AfterglowFinalist [12]
Colin McAdam Some Great ThingFinalist [12]
Rory Stewart The Places in Between Finalist [12]
2005 Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation Winner [13]
Rana Dasgupta Tokyo Cancelled Finalist [14]
Peter Hobbs The Short Day DyingFinalist [14]
Sinéad Morrissey The State of the PrisonsFinalist [14]
Rebecca Ray NewfoundlandFinalist [14]
Rachel Zadok Gem Squash TokolosheFinalist [14]
2006/7 Sarah Hall The Carhullan ArmyWinner [15] [16] [17]
Ceridwen Dovey Blood KinFinalist [18]
Joanna Kavenna IngloriousFinalist [18]
Robert Macfarlane The Wild Places Finalist [18]
Gwendoline Riley Joshua SpasskyFinalist [18]
Rory Stewart Occupational Hazards Finalist [18]
2008 Henry Hitchings The Secret Life of WordsWinner [19]
Aravind Adiga The White TigerFinalist [19] [20] [21]
Adam Foulds The Broken WordFinalist [19] [21]
James PalmerThe Bloody White BaronFinalist [19] [21]
Ross Raisin God's Own CountryFinalist [19] [20] [21]
Brian Schofield Selling Your Father's BonesFinalist [19] [20] [21]
2009 Evie Wyld After the Fire, A Still Small Voice Winner [22]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Thing Around Your Neck Finalist [23]
Aravind Adiga Between the Assassinations Finalist [23]
Emma Jones The Striped WorldFinalist [23]
James Maskalyk Six Months in Sudan Finalist [23]
Tristram Stuart Waste: Uncovering the Global Food ScandalFinalist [23]
2010 Amy Sackville The Still Point Winner [24] [25] [26] [27]
Cordelia Fine Delusions of Gender Finalist [28]
Susan Fletcher CorragFinalist [28]
Kei Miller A Light Song of LightFinalist [28]
Nadifa Mohamed Black Mamba Boy Finalist [28]
Daniel Swift Bomber CountyFinalist [28]

Notes

  1. ↑ The 2002 prize was initially awarded to Hari Kunzru for his book The Impressionist on 20 November 2003, but the author decided to decline the award due to its sponsorship by The Mail on Sunday .

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Alison Flood. "John Llewellyn Rhys prize 'suspended'" Archived 3 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine , The Guardian, 29 June 2011
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  5. ↑ Liao, Pei-chen (2013). Crossing the Borders of the Body Politic after 9/11: The Virus Metaphor and Autoimmunity in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 53. ISBN   978-1-349-34594-6 . Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  6. ↑ "The Mail on Sunday/John Llewllyn Rhys Prize". Archived from the original on 4 December 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Drabble, Margaret (29 June 2011). "We can't afford to lose the John Llewellyn Rhys prize". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  8. ↑ Yates, Emma (8 November 2001). "A40 biography wins John Llewellyn Rhys prize". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077. Archived from the original on 27 December 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 "Virgins of Venice wins Kunzru's rejected prize". The Guardian. 11 December 2003. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
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  12. 1 2 3 4 5 Pauli, Michelle (14 November 2005). "Nigerian debut makes John Llewellyn Rhys shortlist". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077. Archived from the original on 28 November 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
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