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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
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or book of short stories. It was cancelled in 1999 due to "the lack of publicity its winners received."


Past winners

*1975 -
Jane Gardam Jane Mary Gardam (born 11 July 1928) is an English writer of children's and adult fiction. She also writes reviews for ''The Spectator'' and ''The Telegraph'', and writes for BBC radio. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She has won nu ...
- ''Black Faces, White Faces'' and Matthew Vaughan - ''Chalky'' *1976 -
Caroline Blackwood Lady Caroline Blackwood (16 July 1931 – 14 February 1996) was an English writer, and the eldest child of Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, the 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and the brewery heiress Maureen ...
- ''The Stepdaughter'' *1977 - Patricia Finney - ''A Shadow of Gulls'' *1978 -
Leslie Norris George Leslie Norris (21 May 1921 – 6 April 2006), was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. He taught at academic institutions in Britain and the United States, including Brigham Young University. Norris is considered one of ...
- ''Sliding: Short Stories'' *1979 -
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- ''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 James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian. Biography Buchan is a son of the late William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, and grandson of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, the Scottish novelist and diplomat. He has se ...
- ''A Parish of Rich Women'' *1985 -
Patricia Ferguson Patricia Josephine Ferguson (born 24 September 1958, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour Party politician who was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Maryhill constituency from 1999 until 2011 and for Glasgow Maryhill and Springb ...
- ''Family Myths and Legends'' *1986 -
Jim Crace James Crace (born 1 March 1946) is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, Crace was born in Hertfordshire and has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin. His n ...
- ''
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'' *1987 - Adam Zameenzad - ''The Thirteenth House'' *1988 -
Carol Birch Carol Birch (born 1951) is an English novelist, lecturer and book critic. She also teaches creative writing. Life Birch was born in Manchester. Her parents had met in a wartime armaments factory. Her father, a metallurgist, also played trombone ...
- ''Life in the Palace'' *1989 - Tim O'Grady - ''Motherland'' *1990 - Russell Celyn Jones - ''Soldiers and Innocents'' *1991 - John Loveday - ''Halo'' *1992 -
Elspeth Barker Elspeth Barker (16 November 1940 – 21 April 2022) was a Scottish novelist and journalist. Born as Elspeth Langlands, she was raised in Drumtochty Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where her parents ran a prep school for boys. From 1958, she re ...
- ''O Caledonia'' *1993 -
Nicola Barker Nicola Barker (born 30 March 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. When she was still young her parents left England and settled in South Africa. Fiction Typically she writes about ...
- ''Love Your Enemies'' *1994 -
Fred D'Aguiar Fred D'Aguiar (born 2 February 1960) is a British-Guyanese poet, novelist, and playwright. He is currently Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Life Fred D'Aguiar was born in London, England, in 1960 t ...
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The Longest Memory ''The Longest Memory'' is a 1994 short novel (138 pages long) by British writer Fred D'Aguiar. It was the Guyana-born poet's first novel, The story takes place on a Virginian plantation, in the period before the American Civil War, between 1790 ...
'' *1995 - Vikram Chandra - ''Red Earth and Pouring Rain'' *1996 - Linda Grant - ''The Cast Iron Shore'' *1997 -
Ronald Wright Ronald Wright (born 1948, London, England) is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller '' Stolen Continents'', winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of th ...
- ''A Scientific Romance'' *1998 - Gavin Kramer - ''
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References

*Awards up to 1988: ''Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners'' by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd {{DEFAULTSORT:David Higham Prize For Fiction First book awards British fiction awards Awards established in 1975 Awards disestablished in 1999 1975 establishments in the United Kingdom 1999 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Commonwealth literary awards Irish literary awards Pakistani literary awards South African literary awards South African literary events