Winners of the Guardian Prize

Winners in alphabetical order | Back to the list of literary prizes
  • 1965 Clive Barry, Crumb Borne
  • 1966 Archie Hind, The Dear Green Place
  • 1967 Eva Figes, Winter Journey
  • 1968 P. J. Kavanagh, A Song and a Dance
  • 1969 Maurice Leitch, Poor Lazarus
  • 1970 Margaret Blount, Where Did You Last See your Father?
  • 1971 Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel
  • 1972 John Berger, G
  • 1973 Peter Redgrove, In the Country of the Skin
  • 1974 Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
  • 1975 Sylvia Clayton, Friends and Romans
  • 1976 Robert Nye, Falstaff
  • 1977 Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak
  • 1978 Neil Jordan, Night in Tunisia
  • 1979 Dambudzo Merechera, The House of Hunger
  • 1980 J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country
  • 1981 John Banville, Kepler
  • 1982 Glyn Hughes, Where I Used to Play on the Green
  • 1983 Graham Swift, Waterland
  • 1984 J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
  • 1985 Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
  • 1986 Jim Crace, Continent
  • 1987 Peter Benson, The Levels
  • 1988 Lucy Ellman, Sweet Desserts
  • 1989 Carol Lake, Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City
  • 1990 Pauline Melville, Shape-Shifter
  • 1991 Alan Judd, The Devil's Own Work
  • 1992 Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
  • 1993 Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door
  • 1994 Candia McWilliam, Debatable Land
  • 1995 James Buchan, Heart's Journey in Winter
  • 1996 Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
  • 1997 Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
  • 1998 Jackie Kay, Trumpet
  • 1999 Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families
  • 2000 Zadie Smith, White Teeth
  • 2001 Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, or the Smartest Kid on Earth
  • 2002 Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
  • 2003 Robert MacFarlane, Mountains of the Mind
  • 2004 Armand Marie Leroi: Mutants
  • 2005 Alexander Masters: Stuart
  • 2005 Yiyun Li: "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers"
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