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 Year Author Title 1990 Simon Mawer Chimera 1991 John Loveday Halo 1992 Alberto Manguel News from a Foreign Country Came 1993 Andrew Barrow The Tap Dancer 1994 Helen Dunmore Zennor in Darkness 1995 Christopher Bigsby Hester 1996 Stephen Blanchard Gagarin and I 1997 Patricia Duncker Hallucinating Foucault 1998 Eli Gottlieb The Boy Who Went Away 1999 Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts 2000s Year Author Title 2000 Chris Dolan Ascension Day 2001 Giles Waterfield The Long Afternoon 2002 Manil Suri The Death of Vishnu 2003 Mary Lawson Crow Lake 2004 Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2005 Lloyd Jones Mr Vogel 2006 Peter Pouncey Rules for Old Men Waiting 2007 Reina James This Time of Dying 2008 Jennie Walker 24 for 3 2009 Chris Hannan Missy 2010s + 2010s McKitterick Prize Winners and Runners-up Year Author Work Result 2010 Raphael Selbourne Beauty 2011 Emma Henderson Grace Williams Says It Loud Frances Kay Micka 2012 Ginny Baily Africa Junction Cressida Connolly My Former Heart 2013 Alison Moore The Lighthouse Caroline Brothers Hinterland 2014 Gabriel Weston Dirty Work Gabriel Gbadamosi Vauxhall 2015 Robert Allison The Letter Bearer Paul Ewen Francis Pug: How to Be a Public Author 2016 Petina Gappah The Book of Memory Nick Coleman Pillow Man 2017 David Dyer The Midnight Watch Austin Duffy This Living & Immortal Thing 2018 Anietie Isong Radio Sunrise Frances Maynard The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr 2019 Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott Swan Song Carys Davies West
2020s + 2020s McKitterick Prize Winners and Runners-up Year Author Work Result 2020 Claire Adam Golden Child Taffy Brodesser-Akner Fleishman Is in Trouble 2021 Elaine Feeney As You Were Deepa Anappara Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line 2022 David Annand Peterdown Lisa Taddeo Animal 2023 Louise Kennedy Trespasses Liz Hyder The Gifts 2024 Wenyan Lu The Funeral Cryer Chidi Ebere Now I Am Here 2025 Tom Newlands Only Here, Only Now Lauren Elkin Scaffolding
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