Geoffrey_Faber_Memorial_Prize

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

British literary prize

The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber. It recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a United Kingdom, Irish or Commonwealth author under 40 years of age on the date of publication, and is in alternating years awarded to poetry and fiction (including short stories).[1]

The prize is worth £1500.[2]

The prize jury, comprising three reviewers, is selected by literary editors of journals and newspapers that regularly publish reviews of poetry and fiction.[3]

In its first year, the prize was awarded to Christopher Middleton and George MacBeth for poetry. The first win by a short-story collection, The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self, was in 1993.[3]

Winners

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Notes

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    Natasha Onwuemezi (30 November 2017). "Kim Moore wins 2016 Geoffrey Faber prize". The Bookseller.
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    Andrew Maunder (1 January 2007). The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story. Infobase Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-8160-7496-9.
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    International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1070.
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    "MacBeth, George Mann". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51192. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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    Dinah Birch (24 September 2009). The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 1014. ISBN 978-0-19-280687-1.
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    "Silkin, Jon". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68498. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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    Alison Flood (31 March 2009). "Nick Laird follows idol Heaney to Faber prize win". The Guardian.
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    Head 2006, p. 922.
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    "Hill, Sir Geoffrey (William)". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
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    International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 720.
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    Ray 2007, p. 232.
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    "Storey, David Malcolm". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
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    International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 557
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    "Dunn, Prof. Douglas Eaglesham". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
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    International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 684.
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    Ray 2007, p. 373.
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    International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1666.
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    "Szirtes, George Gábor Nicholas". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
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    Alba della Fazia Amoia; Bettina Liebowitz Knapp (1 January 2004). Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 156–. ISBN 978-0-313-30688-4.
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    "Muldoon, Prof. Paul". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
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    "Paulin, Thomas Neilson". Who's Who 2014. A&C Black. 2014.
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    Philip Tew; Emily Horton; Leigh Wilson (27 February 2014). The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction. A&C Black. pp. 247–. ISBN 978-1-4411-6853-5.
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    Ray 2007, p. 35.
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    Nicholas von Maltzahn (1 January 1991). "Guy Vanderheghe". In Jeffrey M. Heath (ed.). Profiles in Canadian Literature 8. Dundurn. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-55488-270-0.
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    International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 732.
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    Joshua Mehigan (April 2005). "The interior of a heron's egg: Michael Donaghy, 1954–2004". The New Criterion. 23. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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    Head 2006, p. 104.
  29. [29]
    "Readers suggest the 10 best short-story collections". The Observer. 22 October 2014.
  30. [30]
    International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 242.
  31. [31]
    Colin Stanley (2011). Around the Outsider: Essays Presented to Colin Wilson on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. John Hunt Publishing. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-84694-668-4.
  32. [32]
    Head 2006, p. 739.
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    Matt McGuire; Colin Nicholson (1 September 2009). The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-7486-3626-6.
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    Katy Guest (16 May 2008). "Emily Perkins: The benefit of distance". The Independent. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
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    International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1223.
  36. [36]
    Leza Lowitz (19 December 2000). "Making mush of Meadowlark". The Japan Times. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  37. [37]
    Fiona Sampson (1 January 2004). Creative Writing in Health and Social Care. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-84310-136-9.
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    "Azzopardi wins writing prize". BBC News. 1 November 2001.
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    "Deep purple: how a humble weed inspired a collection of poetry". BBC Devon. 20 November 2008. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  40. [40]
    Ray 2007, p. 351.
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    "Dartington poet Alice Oswald wins £25k prize". Torquay Herald Express. 25 September 2013.
  42. [42]
    "Poetry in the News: 2007". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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    Leyla Sanai (10 April 2011). "The Devil's Garden, By Edward Docx". The Independent. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
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    David Szalay (11 July 2014). "Hampstead Heath". The Financial Times.
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    Victoria Gallagher (1 June 2010). "Debut author Szalay wins Geoffrey Faber prize". The Bookseller.
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    Charlotte Williams (24 June 2011). "Macphee wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Bookseller.
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    Joshua Farrington (19 July 2012). "McKeon wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Bookseller.
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    Joshua Farrington (21 June 2013). "Polley wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Bookseller.
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    Beth Webb (21 November 2014). "Eimear McBride wins the 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Daily Telegraph.
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    "Eimear McBride wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". The Irish Times. 21 November 2014.
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    "The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2014 – Faber & Faber Blog". Faber & Faber. Faber. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  52. [52]
    "Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Archived 6 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine". booksirelandmagazine.com. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  53. [53]
    Natasha Onwuemezi (30 November 2017). "Kim Moore wins 2016 Geoffrey Faber prize". The Bookseller.
  54. [54]
    "Gwendoline Riley wins the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2017 for fiction – Faber & Faber Blog". Faber & Faber. Faber. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

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