The McKitterick Prize is a

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. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of ''

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'' but had also written a novel which was never published. The prize is awarded annually for a first novel (which need not have been published) by an author over 40. As of 2009, the value of the prize was £4000. The McKitterick Prize was first awarded in 1990.

List of prize winners

1990s

* 1990 -

Simon Mawer Simon Mawer ( ; born 1948, England) is a British author who lives in Italy. Life and work Born in 1948 and was educated at Millfield School in Somerset and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Mawer took a degree in Zoology and has worked as a biology ...

for ''Chimera'' * 1991 - John Loveday for ''Halo'' * 1992 - Alberto Manguel for ''News from a Foreign Country Came'' * 1993 -

Andrew Barrow Andrew Barrow (born 1945) is a British journalist and author. His ''The Tap Dancer'' won the 1993 Hawthornden Prize and the McKitterick Prize for the best debut novel, first novel by an author aged over 40.An Almanack Joseph Whitaker 1993 - Snippe ...

for ''The Tap Dancer'' * 1994 -

Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer. Her best known works include the novels ''Zennor in Darkness'', '' A Spell of Winter'' and ''The Siege'', and her last ...

for '' Zennor in Darkness'' * 1995 -

Christopher Bigsby Christopher William Edgar Bigsby FRSA FRSL, (born 27 June 1941) is a British literary analyst and novelist, with more than sixty books to his credit. Earlier in his writing career, his books were published under the name C. W. E. Bigsby. He has ...

for ''Hester'' * 1996 - Stephen Blanchard for ''Gagarin and I'' * 1997 -

Patricia Duncker Patricia Marjory Duncker (born 29 June 1951) is a British novelist and academic. Academic career Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of Noel Aston Duncker (1904–1973), an accountant, and Sheila Joan (née Beer) (1918–2016), a teacher, H ...

for '' Hallucinating Foucault'' * 1998 - Eli Gottlieb for ''

The Boy Who Went Away ''The Boy Who Went Away'' is a 1997 debut novel by Eli Gottlieb, it won the Rome Prize, the McKitterick Prize in 1998, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It has been identified as one of the best novels of the 1990s.Linda Parent Leshe ...

'' * 1999 -

Magnus Mills Magnus Mills (born in 1954 in Birmingham) is an English fiction writer and bus driver. He is best known for his first novel, '' The Restraint of Beasts'', which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and praised by Thomas Pynchon. Background Magn ...

for '' The Restraint of Beasts''

2000s

* 2000 -

Chris Dolan Chris Dolan (born 1957, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish novelist, poet, and playwright. Career Dolan has published four novels (''Ascension Day'', ''Redlegs'', ''Potter's Field'' and ''Aliyyah''), two collections of short stories and two no ...

for ''Ascension Day'' * 2001 -

Giles Waterfield Giles Waterfield (24 July 1949 – 5 November 2016) was a British, McKitterick Prize winning novelist, art historian and curator. Personal life and education Giles Waterfield spent his childhood in Paris and Geneva, and was educated at Magda ...

for ''The Long Afternoon'' * 2002 -

Manil Suri Manil Suri (born July 1959) is an Indian-American mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels all named for Hindu gods. His first novel, '' The Death of Vishnu'' (2001), which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for th ...

for ''

The Death of Vishnu ''The Death of Vishnu'' (2001) is a novel by Indian-American writer Manil Suri. The book is about the spiritual journey of a dying man named Vishnu living on a landing of a Bombay apartment building, as well as the lives of the residents living i ...

'' * 2003 - Mary Lawson for '' Crow Lake'' * 2004 -

Mark Haddon Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Wr ...

for ''

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title refers to an observation by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (created by Arthur Conan Doyle) in the 1892 short story ...

'' * 2005 -

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for ''Mr Vogel'' * 2006 -

Peter Pouncey Peter R. Pouncey (born October 1, 1937) is an English author, classicist, and former president of Amherst College. Biography The son of a British father and a French-British mother, he was born in Tsingtao (now Qingdao), China. At the end of Wo ...

for ''Rules for Old Men Waiting'' * 2007 -

Reina James Reina James (born 1947) is a British author, singer and actress. . She has written two novels, the first of which won the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize in 2007. Early life James was born in 1947, shortly after her parents moved to the ...

for ''This Time of Dying'' * 2008 -

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for ''

24 for 3 ''24 for 3'' is a 2007 novella by Jennie Walker (a pen name of English poet Charles Boyle); it won the 2008 McKitterick Prize. (awarded to authors over 40 for their first novel) and was selected by Karl Miller of the '' Times Literary Supple ...

'' * 2009 -

Chris Hannan Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common. People with the given name *Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...

for ''Missy''

2010s

* 2010 -

Raphael Selbourne Raphael Selbourne (born 1968 in Oxford, England) is a British writer. His debut novel ''Beauty (Selbourne novel), Beauty'' was awarded the 2009 Costa Book Awards, 2009 Costa First Novel Award and the McKitterick Prize in 2010. Background Born ...

for '' Beauty'' * 2011 - Winner: Emma Henderson for ''Grace Williams Says It Loud'' ::: (Runner-up: Frances Kay for ''Micka'') * 2012 - Winner: Ginny Baily for ''Africa Junction'' ::: (Runner-up:

Cressida Connolly Cressida Connolly (born 14 January 1960) is an English novelist, biographer, journalist and critic. Personal life Connolly grew up in Sussex. She is the only daughter of the critic and writer Cyril Connolly (died 26 November 1974). Her mother, ...

for ''My Former Heart'') * 2013 - Winner: Alison Moore for ''

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'' ::: (Runner-up: Caroline Brothers for ''Hinterland'') * 2014 - Winner:

Gabriel Weston Gabriel Jessie Corfield Weston (born 15 July 1970 in London) is an English surgeon, author and television presenter. Her memoir entitled ''Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story'' was published in February 2009. It was long-listed for the Guardian First ...

for ''Dirty Work'' ::: (Runner-up:

Gabriel Gbadamosi Gabriel Gbadamosi (born 1961)Killam, G. Douglas, and Alicia L. Kerfoot''Student Encyclopedia of African Literature'' Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008, p. 14. is a British poet, playwright and novelist of Irish-Nigerian descent. He is ...

for '' Vauxhall'') * 2015 - Winner: Robert Allison for '' The Letter Bearer'' ::: (Runner-up: Paul Ewen for ''Francis Pug: How To Be A Public Author'') * 2016 - Winner:

Petina Gappah Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by ''Brittle Paper''. In 2017 she had a DAAD Arti ...

for ''The Book of Memory'' ::: (Runner-up: Nick Coleman for ''Pillow Man'') * 2017 - Winner: David Dyer for ''The Midnight Watch'' ::: (Runner-up: Austin Duffy for ''This Living & immortal Thing'') * 2018 - Winner:

Anietie Isong Anietie Isong is a Nigerian/British author of poetry and short stories. Biography Dr. Anietie Isong holds a PhD in New Media and Writing from De Montfort University, Leicester. He is also a graduate of the University of Ibadan and the Universit ...

for ''Radio Sunrise'' ::: (Runner-up: Frances Maynard for ''The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr'') * 2019 - Winner:

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott is an American author. ''Swan Song'', her first novel, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, won the McKitterick Prize, won The Sunday Times paperbacks of the year 2019 and was shortlisted for the Golds ...

for ''Swan Song'' ::: (Runner-up: Carys Davies for ''West'')

2020s

* 2020 - Winner:

Claire Adam Claire Adam is a Trinidadian author whose first novel '' Golden Child'' triggered critical acclaim. On 5 November 2019, the ''BBC News'' listed ''Golden Child'' on its list of the 100 most influential novels. Biography Claire Adam was born in ...

for Golden Child ::: (Runner-up:

Taffy Brodesser-Akner Taffy Brodesser-Akner (born Stephanie Akner) is an American journalist and author. She has worked freelance and as a contributor for '' GQ'' and ''The New York Times'', where she is now a staff writer. Her profiles of celebrities have won her th ...

for

Fleishman is in Trouble ''Fleishman Is in Trouble '' is a 2019 novel by American writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner. The debut novel was published on 18 June 2019 by Penguin Random House. It tells the story of a Manhattan couple undergoing a bitter divorce. Brodesser-Akner a ...

) * 2021 - Winner: Elaine Feeney for ''As You Were'' ::: (Runner-up: Deepa Anappara for ''Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line'') * 2022 - Winner: David Annand for ''Peterdown'' ::: (Runner-up: Lisa Taddeo for ''Animal'')

Sources

* British fiction awards Society of Authors awards Awards established in 1990 1990 establishments in the United Kingdom First book awards Awards by age of recipient {{lit-award-stub