The Guardian Fiction Award
(Guardian First Book Award)

Awarded since 1965 by the Guardian, this prize is worth £10,000 to the winner. The selection is made by a panel of critics and writers, chaired by the Literary Editor of the Guardian. This is the oldest and best-established of the awards sponsored by a newspaper; sponsorship by one newspaper has a somewhat negative effect on publicity since other newspapers are less willing to publicize the winner than they are for prizes such as the Booker or Somerset Maugham which are underwritten by businesses or endowments and administered by the Book Trust or Society of Authors. In 1999 the prize was altered. It is now the Guardian First Book Award, and is no longer restricted to fiction.

Year	Winner
1965	Clive Barry, Crumb Borne
1966	Archie Hind, The Dear Green Place
1967	Eva Figes, Winter Journey
1968	P. J. Kavanagh, A Song and a Dance
1969	Maurice Leitch, Poor Lazarus
1970	Margaret Blount, Where Did You Last See your Father?
1971	Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel
1972	John Berger, G
1973	Peter Redgrove, In the Country of the Skin
1974	Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
1975	Sylvia Clayton, Friends and Romans
1976	Robert Nye, Falstaff
1977	Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak
1978	Neil Jordan, Night in Tunisia
1979	Dambudzo Merechera, The House of Hunger
1980	J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country
1981	John Banville, Kepler
1982	Glyn Hughes, Where I Used to Play on the Green
1983	Graham Swift, Waterland
1984	J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
1985	Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
1986	Jim Crace, Continent
1987	Peter Benson, The Levels
1988	Lucy Ellman, Sweet Desserts
1989	Carol Lake, Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City
1990	Pauline Melville, Shape-Shifter
1991	Alan Judd, The Devil's Own Work
1992	Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
1993	Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door
1994	Candia McWilliam, Debatable Land
1995	James Buchan, Heart's Journey in Winter
1996	Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
1997	Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
1998	Jackie Kay, Trumpet
1999	Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families
2000	Zadie Smith, White Teeth
2001	Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, or the Smartest Kid on Earth
2002	Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
2003	Robert MacFarlane, Mountains of the Mind
2004	Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
2005	Alexander Master, Stuart: A Life Backwards
2006	Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2007	Dinaw Mengestu, Children of the Revolution
2008	Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

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