WH Smith Literary Award

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The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the visa mer British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. visa färre
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Winner 47

VerkÅr
Konspirationen mot Amerika av Philip Roth2005
The Time of Our Singing av Richard Powers2004
Den lille vännen av Donna Tartt2003
Försoning av Ian McEwan2002
Skamfläcken av Philip Roth2001
The Soldier's Return av Melvyn Bragg2000
Master Georgie av Beryl Bainbridge1999
Tales from Ovid av Ted Hughes1998
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 av Orlando Figes1997
Skog : landskap och minne : en civilisationshistoria av Simon Schama1996
Open Secrets av Alice Munro1995
En lämplig ung man av Vikram Seth1994
Daughters of the House av Michele Roberts1993
The Scramble for Africa: 1876–1912 av Thomas Pakenham1992
Omeros av Derek Walcott1991
A Careless Widow and Other Stories av V. S. Pritchett1990
A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88 av Christopher Hill1989
De dömdas kust : [1788 kom de första straffångarna till Australien] av Robert Hughes1988
Collected Poems: 1953-1985 av Elizabeth Jennings1987
Den goda terroristen : [roman] av Doris Lessing1986
The Pork Butcher av David Hughes1985
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-82 av Philip Larkin1984
Wise Virgin av A. N. Wilson1983
Last waltz in Vienna av George Clare1982
The Shooting Party av Isabel Colegate1981
Selected Poems, 1950–1975 av Thom Gunn1980
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History av Mark Girouard1979
A Time of Gifts av Patrick Leigh Fermor1978
Slim: The Standardbearer : A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim (Wordsworth Military Library) av Ronald Lewin1977
North av Seamus Heaney1976
Wilfred Owen av Jon Stallworthy1975
Temporary Kings av Anthony Powell1974
Catholics av Brian Moore1973
The lost country av Kathleen Raine1972
New lives, new landscapes av Nan Fairbrother1971
Den franske löjtnantens kvinna av John Fowles1970
John Keats av Robert Gittings1968
The Mimic Men av V. S. Naipaul1968
Sargassohavet av Jean Rhys1967
A Child Possessed av R. C. Hutchinson1966
Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918 av Leonard Woolf1965
Meditations On a Hobby Horse and Other Essays On the Theory of Art av E. H. Gombrich1964
The Birthday King av Gabriel Fielding1963
We Think The World of You av J. R. Ackerley1962
Friday's Footprint and Other Stories av Nadine Gordimer1961
Cider med Rosie av Laurie Lee1960
Voss av Patrick White1959

Shortlist 2

Beskrivningar

The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. (English, Medlemsbidrag)
discontinued in 2005 (Russian, Medlemsbidrag)

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