The £10,000 Encore Award

Encore Award

The £10,000 Encore Award for the best second novel - now awarded biennially - was first awarded in 1990. It is administered by the Society of Authors and is sponsored by Lucy Astor. The award fills a niche in the catalogue of literary prizes by celebrating the achievement of outstanding second...

for the best second novel - now awarded biennially - was first awarded in 1990. It is administered by the Society of Authors

Society of Authors

The Society of Authors is a trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights .It has counted amongst its members and presidents numerous notable writers and poets including Tennyson The Society of Authors (UK) is a...

and is sponsored by Lucy Astor. The award fills a niche in the catalogue of literary prizes by celebrating the achievement of outstanding second novels, often neglected in comparison to the attention given to promising first books. Entry is by publisher.

The next award will be given in May 2011 for the best second novel of 2010. The biennial deadline for entries is 30th November. Entry forms and guidelines can be downloaded from the Society of Authors

Society of Authors

The Society of Authors is a trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights .It has counted amongst its members and presidents numerous notable writers and poets including Tennyson The Society of Authors (UK) is a...

website.

Past winners

Year	Author	Book	Award
1990	Peter Benson Peter Benson (author) Peter Benson was born in 1956 in Kent, UK and is the award-winning author of eight novels. His work has been described as ‘a far-reaching exploration into unlikely relationships’ and is characterised by the precision of its language, characterisations and approach.-Bibliography:Novels* 1987, The...	A Lesser Dependency	£3,750
	Paul Watkins Paul Watkins (novelist) Paul Watkins is an American author who currently lives with his wife, [Cathy] and two children, [Emma, Oliver] in Hightstown, New Jersey. He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton and Yale...	Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn is the second novel by American author Paul Watkins. It was published in 1989 by Houghton Mifflin and shared the Encore Award the following year.-Plot introduction:...	£3,750
1991	Carey Harrison Carey Harrison -Life:Harrison was born in London to actors Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, and raised in Los Angeles and New York, where he attended the Lycée Français. Subsequently, in Britain, he attended Sunningdale School, Harrow School, and Jesus College, Cambridge....	Richard's Feet	£7,500
1992	Iain Sinclair Iain Sinclair Iain Sinclair FRSL is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.-Life and work:...	Downriver	£7,500
1993	Colm Toibin Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the...	The Heather Blazing The Heather Blazing The Heather Blazing is the 1992 novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It was the author's second novel and allowed him to become a full time fiction writer. The intensity of the prose and the emotional tension under the colder eye with which the events are seen, provided him with a faithful...	£7,500
1994	Amit Chaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri is an internationally recognised Indian English author and academic. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.-Life:...	Afternoon Raag	£7,500
1995	Dermot Healy Dermot Healy Dermot Healy is an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet. He has won the Hennessy Award , the Tom Gallon Award , and the Encore Award...	A Goat's Song	£7,500
1996	A.L. Kennedy	So I am Glad	£7,500
1997	David Flusfeder David Flusfeder David Flusfeder is an author who was born in the United States in 1960 but currently lives in London with his wife and two children.His novels are most recently, "A Film by Spencer Ludwig" The Pagan House "Morocco" , "The Gift" and Like Plastic , which won the Encore Award.Man Kills Woman was...	Like Plastic	£7,500
1998	Timothy O'Grady	I Could Read the Sky	£3,750
	Alan Warner Alan Warner Alan Warner , a Scottish novelist, grew up in Connel, near Oban.He is the author of six novels: the acclaimed Morvern Callar , winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; These Demented Lands , winner of the Encore Award; The Sopranos , winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award; The Man...	These Demented Lands	£3,750
1999	Christina Koning Christina Koning Christina Koning is a novelist and short story writer who has reviewed extensively for the UK national press. Koning was born in Kuala Belait, Borneo, in 1954, and spent her early childhood in Venezuela and Jamaica. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh –...	Undiscovered Country	£7,500
2000	John Burnside John Burnside John Burnside is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline.-Background:Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996...	The Mercy Boys	£2,500
	Claire Messud Claire Messud Claire Messud is an American novelist. She is best known as the author of the 2006 novel The Emperor's Children.-Early life:...	The Last Life	£2,500
	Matt Thorne Matt Thorne Matt Thorne is an English writer born in 1974 who has published seven novels. Thorne grew up in Bristol, England, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Thorne's first book, Tourist, was published in 1998. The book is an attack on the negative effects of tourism on...	Eight Minutes Idle	£2,500
	Phil Whitaker	Triangulation	£2,500
2001	Anne Enright Anne Enright Anne Enright is a Booker Prize-winning Irish author. She has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction book and four novels. Before her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Enright had a low profile in Ireland and the United Kingdom, although her books were favourably reviewed...	What Are You Like?	£10,000
2002	Ali Smith Ali Smith Ali Smith is a British writer.She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that was never finished. She worked as a lecturer at University of...	Hotel World Hotel World Hotel World is a postmodern novel with influences from modernist novel written by Ali Smith portraying the stages of grief in relation to the passage of time. It won both the Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Encore Award ....	£10,000
2003	Jeremy Gavron	The Book of Israel	£10,000
2004	Michelle de Kretser Michelle de Kretser Michelle de Kretser is an Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka but moved to Australia when she was 14.She was educated in Melbourne and Paris, and published her first novel, The Rose Grower in 1999...	The Hamilton Case The Hamilton Case The Hamilton Case is a 2003 novel by Australian author Michelle de Kretser. The book won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Encore Award . The work centres around the lives of the somewhat eccentric Obeysekere family, in particular Sam, and the 1930s setting explores themes of colonization in...	£10,000
2005	Nadeem Aslam Nadeem Aslam Nadeem Aslam is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist.-Biography:Aslam moved with his family to England aged 14, when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia's regime. The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire...	Maps for Lost Lovers Maps for Lost Lovers Maps for Lost Lovers is a novel by the British Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam. Ostensibly about the murder of a pair of lovers, the book is in fact a minute dissection of working-class Pakistani immigrant communities that have settled in the north of England over the last 40 years.Aslam spent 11...	£10,000
2006/07	M. J. Hyland M. J. Hyland Maria Joan Hyland is a novelist. She made her debut in Australia in 2003 with How the Light Gets In. Her second novel Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and won both the Encore Award and the Hawthornden Prize in 2007...	Carry Me Down Carry Me Down Carry Me Down is the second novel of British writer M. J. Hyland. It was awarded the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize....	£10,000
2008/09	Julia Leigh Julia Leigh Julia Leigh is an Australian novelist, film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Born in 1970 in Sydney, Australia, Leigh is the eldest of three daughters of a doctor and maths teacher. She initially studied law but shifted to writing. For a time she worked at the Australian Society of Authors...	Disquiet	£10,000
2010/11	Adam Foulds Adam Foulds Adam Foulds is a British novelist and poet.-Biography:Foulds was educated at Bancroft's School, read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford under Craig Raine, and graduated with an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2001. Foulds published The Truth About These Strange...	The Quickening Maze	£10,000