The Cheltenham Prize is awarded at the English Cheltenham Literature Festival to the author of any book published in the relevant year which "has received less acclaim than it deserved".
Past winners 1979: Angela Carter for The Bloody Chamber 1980: Thomas Pakenham for The Boer War 1981: D. M. Thomas for The White Hotel 1982: Simon Gray for Quartermaine's Terms 1983: Alasdair Gray for Unlikely Stories, Mostly 1984: Beatrix Campbell for Wigan Pier Revisited 1985: Frank McLynn for The Jacobite Army of England: 1745, The Final Campaign 1986: Frank McGuiness for Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme 1987: James Kelman for Greyhound for Breakfast 1988: Peter Robinson for The Other Life 1989: Medbh McGuckian for On Ballycastle Beach 1990: Hilary Mantel for Fludd 1991: Marius Kociejowski for Coast 1993: R. S. Thomas for Mass for Hard Times 1994: Lyndall Gordon for Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life 1995: Kazuo Ishiguro for The Unconsoled
References Awards up to 1988: Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd