Sagittarius Prize
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The Sagittarius Prize was a literary award given between 1991 to 2005 by the Society of Authors
for a first novel by an author over the age of sixty. Initially the prize was worth £2,000 but was increased to £4,000 in 2003.
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...
for a first novel by an author over the age of sixty. Initially the prize was worth £2,000 but was increased to £4,000 in 2003.
Past Winners
- 1991 - Judith Hubback, The Sea Has Many Voices
- 1992 - Hugh LeonardHugh LeonardHugh Leonard was an Irish dramatist, television writer and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard wrote more than 18 plays, two volumes of essays and two autobiographies, one novel and numerous screenplays and teleplays, as well as writing a regular newspaper column.-Life and...
, Parnell And The English Woman - 1993 - Brian O'Doherty, The Strange Case Of Mademoiselle P.
- 1994 - George Hummer, Red Branch
- 1995 - Fred Plisner, Gravity Is Getting Me Down
- 1996 - Samuel Lock, As Luck Would Have It
- 1997 - Barbara Hardy, London Lovers
- 1998 - A. SivanandanAmbalavaner SivanandanAmbalavaner Sivanandan is a Sri Lankan novelist, and director of the Institute of Race Relations, a London-based independent educational charity. His first novel, When Memory Dies, won the 1998 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia...
, When Memory Dies - 1999 - Ingrid Mann, The Danube Testament
- 2000 - David Crackanthorpe, Stolen Marches
- 2001 - Michael Richardson, The Pig Bin
- 2002 - Zvi Jagendorf, Wolfy And The Strudelbakers
- 2003 - Margaret Kaine, Ring Of Clay
- 2004 - William Newton, The Two Pound TramThe Two Pound TramThe Two Pound Tram is a novel written by Wiliam Newton . It was first published in 2003 to great acclaim and won the 2004 Society of Authors Sagittarius Prize...
- 2005 - Lauro Martines, Loredana