McKitterick Prize

Literary prize

The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of The Political Quarterly 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 for Chimera
  • 1991 - John Loveday for Halo
  • 1992 - Alberto Manguel for News from a Foreign Country Came
  • 1993 - Andrew Barrow for The Tap Dancer
  • 1994 - Helen Dunmore for Zennor in Darkness
  • 1995 - Christopher Bigsby for Hester
  • 1996 - Stephen Blanchard for Gagarin and I
  • 1997 - Patricia Duncker for Hallucinating Foucault
  • 1998 - Eli Gottlieb for The Boy Who Went Away
  • 1999 - Magnus Mills for The Restraint of Beasts

2000s

2010s

(Runner-up: Frances Kay for Micka)
  • 2012 - Winner: Ginny Baily for Africa Junction
(Runner-up: Cressida Connolly for My Former Heart)
  • 2013 - Winner: Alison Moore for The Lighthouse
(Runner-up: Caroline Brothers for Hinterland)
(Runner-up: Gabriel Gbadamosi for Vauxhall)
(Runner-up: Paul Ewen for Francis Pug: How To Be A Public Author)
(Runner-up: Nick Coleman for Pillow Man)
  • 2017 - Winner: David Dyer for The Midnight Watch
(Runner-up: Austin Duffy for This Living & immortal Thing)
(Runner-up: Frances Maynard for The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr)
(Runner-up: Carys Davies for West)

2020s

(Runner-up: Taffy Brodesser-Akner for Fleishman is in Trouble)
  • 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)
  • 2023 - Winner: Louise Kennedy for Trespasses
(Runner-up: Liz Hyder for The Gifts)

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