Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
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The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British Literary Prize
The Award, established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman publisher Faber & Faber, recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by an Commonwealth author under 40. It is alternating years awarded to poetry and fiction. In its first year, the prize was awarded to Christopher Middleton for his poetry.
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[edit] Previous Winners
- 1964 Christopher Middleton, George MacBeth
- 1965 Frank Tuohy
- 1966 Jon Silkin
- 1967 William McIlvanney, John Noone
- 1968 Seamus Heaney
- 1969 Piers Paul Read
- 1970 Geoffrey Hill
- 1971 J G Farrell
- 1972 Tony Harrison
- 1973 David Storey
- 1974 John Fuller
- 1975 Richard Wright
- 1976 Douglas Dunn
- 1977 Carolyn Slaughter
- 1978 David Harsent, Kit Wright
- 1979 Timothy Mo
- 1980 Hugo Williams, George Szirtes
- 1981 J M Coetzee
- 1982 Tom Paulin, Paul Muldoon
- 1983 Graham Swift
- 1984 James Fenton
- 1985 Julian Barnes
- 1986 David Scott
- 1987 Guy Vanderhaeghe
- 1988 Michael Hofmann
- 1989 David Profumo
- 1990 Michael Donaghy
- 1991 Carol Birch
- 1992 [[Paul Muldoonv
- 1993 Will Self
- 1994 John Burnside
- 1995 Livi Michael
- 1996 Kathleen Jamie
- 1997 Emily Perkins
- 1998 Don Paterson
- 1999 Gavin Kramer
- 2000 Kathleen Jamie
- 2001 Trezza Azzopardi
- 2002 Greta Stoddart
- 2003 Justin Hill
- 2004 Glyn Maxwell
- 2005 David Mitchell
- 2006 Alice Oswald
