Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize

British literary award

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The Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize was presented from 1967 until 2003 by the Royal Society of Literature for the best regional novel of the year.[1] It is named after the novelist Winifred Holtby who was noted for her novels set in the rural scenes of her childhood. In 2003 it was superseded by the Ondaatje Prize.

Year | Recipient | Title

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2002 | Alexandra Fuller | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
2001 | Anna Burns | No Bones
2000 | Donna Morrissey | Kit's Law
1999 | Andrew O'Hagan | Our Fathers
1998 | Giles Foden | The Last King of Scotland
1997 | Eden Robinson | Traplines
1996 | Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance
1995 | Paul Watkins | Archangel
1994 | Jim Crace | Signals of Distress
1993 | Carl McDougall | The Lights Below
1992 | Adam Thorpe | Ulverton
1991 | Elspeth Barker | O Caledonia
1990 | Nino Ricci | Lives of the Saints
1989 | Hilary Mantel | Fludd
1988 | Shusha Guppy | The Blindfold Horse
1986 | Maggie Hemingway | The Bridge
1984 | Balraj Khanna | A Nation of Fools
1983 | Graham Swift | Waterland
1982 | Kazuo Ishiguro | A Pale View of Hills
1981 | Alan Judd | A Breed of Heroes
1980 | Elsa Joubert | Poppie
1978 | Richard Herley | The Stone Arrow
1977 | Anita Desai | Fire on the Mountain
1976 | Eugene McCabe | Victims
1975 | Jane Gardam | Black Faces, White Faces
1974 | Graham King | The Pandora Valley
1973 | Ronald Harwood | Articles of Faith
1973 | Peter Tinniswood | I Didn't Know You Cared
1971 | John Stewart | Last Cool Days
1970 | Shiva Naipaul | Fireflies
1969 | Ian McDonald | The Humming-Bird Tree
1968 | Catherine Cookson | The Round Tower
1967 | David Bean | The Big Meeting

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1. ^ "The Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize". The Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2010.