Cheltenham Prize for Literature

Cheltenham Prize for Literature: The Cheltenham Prize is awarded at the 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 Alisdair 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^[1]

1993 R. S. Thomas for Mass for Hard Times^[2]

1994 Lyndall Gordon for Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life^[3]

1995 Kazuo Ishiguro for The Unconsoled^[4]

References

Awards up to 1988: Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd ISBN 0-85365-558-8

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Awards established in 1979

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