Guildford Arts Book Prize
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The Guildford Arts Book Prize has been awarded annually for the best first novel by an author living anywhere in the UK, and announced at the Guildford Book Festival. Between 1998 and 2005 it was sponsored by Pendleton May[1] and known as the Pendleton May First Novel Award, in 2006 by Goss & Co.,[2] and in 2007 by Jelf Group PLC, which had supported the award since its inception.[3][4]
The winners have been :
- 1997 : Jeremy Poolman for Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona
- 1998 : Steve Lundin for This River Awakens
- Pendleton May First Novel Award :
- 1999 : ?
- 2000 : ?
- 2001 : Shamim Sarif for The World Unseen
- 2002 : Hari Kunzru for The Impressionist
- 2003 : for A Jarful Of Angels
- 2004 : Panos Karnezis for The Maze
- 2005 : for The Great Stink
- Goss First Novel Award :
- 2006 : for White Man Falling[5]
- Jelf Group First Novel Award :
- First Novel Award
- 2008 Ross Raisin for God's Own Country[6][7]
- 2009 award in abeyance
References[]
- ^ Book Prize Archived 2007-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Guildford Book Festival - First Novel Award Archived 2006-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Guildford Book Festival - Jelf Group First Novel Award 2007 Archived 2007-09-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jump up to: a b Alison Flood, "O'Flynn wins Jelf Group award", The Bookseller, 31 October 2007.
- ^ "India-based novel shortlisted for British award", Hindustan Times, 24 September 2006 – via HighBeam Research (subscription required).
- ^ "Guildford Book Festival: First Novel Award 2008". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
- ^ Katie Allen, "Raisin wins first novel award", The Bookseller, 16 October 2008.
External links[]
Categories:
- British fiction awards
- First book awards
- Awards established in 1997
- 1997 establishments in the United Kingdom
- Guildford