David Higham Prize for Fiction
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The David Higham Prize for Fiction was inaugurated in 1975 to mark the 80th birthday of the late David Higham, literary agent, and was awarded annually to a citizen of the Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa for a first novel or book of short stories. It was cancelled in 1999 due to "the lack of publicity its winners received."
Past winners
- 1975 - Jane GardamJane GardamJane Mary Gardam OBE is a British author of children's and adult fiction. She also reviews for the Spectator and the Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio, where her current project is six programmes on the suburbs. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She has won numerous literary awards,...
- Black Faces, White Faces and Matthew Vaughan - Chalky - 1976 - Caroline BlackwoodCaroline BlackwoodLady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood was a writer and artist's muse, and the eldest child of the 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and the brewery heiress Maureen Guinness....
- The Stepdaughter - 1977 - Patricia FinneyPatricia FinneyPatricia Finney is an English author and journalist. She is a graduate of Oxford University with a degree in History. She has written under the pen names "P. F...
- A Shadow of Gulls - 1978 - Leslie NorrisLeslie NorrisGeorge Leslie Norris FRSL , was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. Up to 1974 he earned his living as a college lecturer, teacher and headmaster...
- Sliding: Short Stories - 1979 - John Harvey - The Plate Shop
- 1980 - Ted Harriot - Keep On Running
- 1981 - Christopher HopeChristopher HopeChristopher Hope is a South African novelist and poet who is known for his controversial works dealing with racism and politics in South Africa.-Life:...
- A Separate Development - 1982 - Glyn Hughes - Where I Used to Play on the Green
- 1983 - R. M. Lamming - The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti
- 1984 - James BuchanJames BuchanJames Buchan, born 11 June 1954, is a British novelist and journalist.-Biography:Buchan is the son of William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir and grandson of John Buchan, the Scottish novelist and diplomat. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, and began his career as a Financial...
- A Parish of Rich Women - 1985 - Patricia Ferguson - Family Myths and Legends
- 1986 - Jim CraceJim CraceJames "Jim" Crace is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife...
- Continent - 1987 - Adam Zameenzad - The Thirteenth House
- 1988 - Carol BirchCarol BirchCarol Birch is a British novelist and attended Keele University. The author of eleven novels, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for Life in the Palace, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with The Fog Line in 1991, and she was long-listed for the 2003 ManBooker...
- A Life in the Palace - 1989 - Tim O'Grady - Motherland
- 1990 - Russell Celyn Jones - Soldiers and Innocents
- 1991 - John Loveday - Halo
- 1992 - Elspeth BarkerElspeth BarkerElspeth Barker is a novelist and journalist. She was born in 1940 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her first husband was the poet George Barker by whom she had five children, including the novelist Raffaella Barker. In 2007 she married the writer Bill Troop....
- O Caledonia - 1993 - Nicola BarkerNicola BarkerNicola Barker is an English novelist and short story writer.Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings. Wide Open and Behindlings are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island...
- Love Your Enemies - 1994 - Fred D'AguiarFred D'AguiarFred D'Aguiar is an author of poetry, novels, and drama.D'Aguiar was born in London. His parents were Guyanese. He spent his childhood, from the age of two to twelve, in Guyana. His work has received much, and growing, acclaim. His Bill of Rights, about the Jonestown Massacre of 1978, was a...
- The Longest MemoryThe Longest MemoryThe Longest Memory is a short fiction novel by British writer Fred D'Aguiar. The story takes place on a Virginian plantation and is told through many different people and in different forms. It begins in first person, with Whitechapel, the oldest and most respected slave on the plantation,... - 1995 - Vikram ChandraVikram ChandraVikram Chandra is an Indian writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book....
- Red Earth and Pouring Rain - 1996 - Linda Grant - The Cast Iron Shore
- 1997 - Ronald WrightRonald WrightRonald Wright is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times...
- A Scientific Romance - 1998 - Gavin Kramer - Shopping