The Cheltenham Prize is awarded at the English Cheltenham Literature Festival to the author of any book published in the relevant year which "has received less acclaim than it deserved".[1]
Past winners
- 1979: Angela Carter for The Bloody Chamber
- 1980: Thomas Pakenham for The Boer War
- 1981: D. M. Thomas for The White Hotel
- 1982: Simon Gray for Quartermaine's Terms
- 1983: Alasdair Gray for Unlikely Stories, Mostly
- 1984: Beatrix Campbell for Wigan Pier Revisited
- 1985: Frank McLynn for The Jacobite Army of England: 1745, The Final Campaign
- 1986: Frank McGuiness for Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
- 1987: James Kelman for Greyhound for Breakfast
- 1988: Peter Robinson for The Other Life
- 1989: Medbh McGuckian for On Ballycastle Beach
- 1990: Hilary Mantel for Fludd
- 1991: Marius Kociejowski for Coast[2]
- 1993: R. S. Thomas for Mass for Hard Times[3]
- 1994: Lyndall Gordon for Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life[4]
- 1995: Kazuo Ishiguro for The Unconsoled[5]
References
- Awards up to 1988: Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd ISBN 0-85365-558-8
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- ^ "The Porcupine's Quill | Book Listing | So Dance the Lords of Language". Porcupinesquill.ca. 2003-02-15. Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
- ^ "Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Messrs Heartfiled, Henwood + other white devils". Mail-archive.com. 2000-10-08. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
- ^ "Lyndall Gordon, Biographer". Lyndall Gordon. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
- ^ "Cheltenham Prize | Awards". LibraryThing. Retrieved 2013-10-08.