The Martin Luther King Memorial Prize was instituted by novelist
John Brunner John Brunner may refer to:
* Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet (1842–1919), British industrialist and Liberal Member of Parliament
* John L. Brunner (1929–1980), Pennsylvania politician
* Sir John Brunner, 2nd Baronet (1865–1929), British Libera ...
and his wife and was awarded annually to a literary work published in the US or Britain that was deemed to improve interracial understanding,Derek Humphry ''Good Life, Good Death: The Memoir of a Right to Die Pioneer'' Carrel Books, 2017. "reflecting the ideals to which Dr. Martin Luther King dedicated his life".Norman Frankel "Martin Luther King Memorial Prize (U.K.)" ''The Grants Register 1985–1987'', Macmillan Publishers, 1984, p. 448. As of 1984, the author of the winning work was awarded £100 (). Brunner died in 1995, and it is uncertain if the award has continued.
Winners of the prize have included:
* ''Because They're Black'' (1972) by
Derek Humphry
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and Gus John
* '' Black and White: The Negro and English Society'' (1975) by James Walvin
* ''
A Dry White Season
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'' (1980) by
André Brink
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Robert Lifton
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,
Stella Dadzie
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and Suzanne Scafe
* ''
The European Tribe
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'' (1987) by
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* ''Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain'' (1988) by
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, Literature Matters.
* ''Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63'' (1988) by Taylor Branch, 1989 MLK Prize (and 1989
Pulitzer Prize for History
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