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Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

Index Geoffrey Faber Memorial 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. [1]

95 relations: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, Alice Oswald, Andrew Miller (novelist), Belinda McKeon, Bernard O'Donoghue, Carol Birch, Carolyn Slaughter, Christina Patterson, Christopher Middleton (poet), Ciaran Carson, Cloud Atlas (novel), David Harsent, David Mitchell (author), David Profumo, David Scott (poet), David Storey, David Szalay, Deirdre Madden, Don Paterson, Douglas Dunn, Edward Docx, Eimear McBride, Emily Perkins (novelist), Faber and Faber, Fiction, Fiona Benson (poet), Flaubert's Parrot, Frank Tuohy, Fred Potts (footballer), Gaby Wood, Geoffrey Faber, Geoffrey Hill, George MacBeth, George Szirtes, Gillian Clarke, Glyn Maxwell, Graham Swift, Greta Stoddart, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Hugo Williams, J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Jacob Polley, James Fenton, Jean Sprackland, Jo Shapcott, John Burnside, John Fuller (poet), Jon Silkin, Julia Copus, ..., Julian Barnes, Justin Hill, Kate Kellaway, Kate Summerscale, Kathleen Jamie, Kit Wright, Lavinia Greenlaw, Literary award, Livi Michael, Man Descending, Maurice Riordan, Michael Donaghy, Michael Hofmann, Michael Longley, Nick Laird, Pasmore (novel), Paul Muldoon, Piers Paul Read, Poetry, Publishing, Rachel Cusk, Richard B. Wright, Ruth Padel, Sam Leith, Sara Baume, Seamus Heaney, Self Help (novel), Shopping (novel), Shuttlecock (novel), Stephen Romer, The Bookseller, The Daily Telegraph, The Hiding Place (novel), The Monkey King (Mo novel), The Quantity Theory of Insanity, The Story of the Weasel, Timothy Mo, Tom Paulin, Tony Harrison, Trezza Azzopardi, Troubles (novel), United Kingdom, Waiting for the Barbarians, Will Self, William McIlvanney. Expand index (45 more) »

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is the debut novel of Eimear McBride.

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Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald (born 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire.

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Andrew Miller (novelist)

Andrew Brooke Miller FRSL (born 29 April 1960) is an English novelist.

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Belinda McKeon

Belinda McKeon (born 1979) is an Irish writer.

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Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue FRSL (born 1945) is a contemporary Irish poet and academic.

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Carol Birch

Carol Birch (born in Manchester, 1951) is an English novelist, lecturer and book critic.

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Carolyn Slaughter

Carolyn Slaughter (born 7 January 1946) is an English author now living in the United States.

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Christina Patterson

Christina Mary Patterson (born 1963) is a British journalist.

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Christopher Middleton (poet)

Christopher Middleton (10 June 1926 – 29 November 2015) was a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.

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Ciaran Carson

Ciaran Gerard Carson (born 9 October 1948) is a Belfast, Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist.

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Cloud Atlas (novel)

Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel, the third book by British author David Mitchell.

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David Harsent

David Harsent (born in Devon on 9 December 1942) is an English poet and TV scriptwriter.

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David Mitchell (author)

David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist.

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David Profumo

David John Profumo, FRSL (born 20 October 1955), is an English novelist.

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David Scott (poet)

Reverend Canon Dr David Scott is a Church of England priest, poet, playwright and spiritual writer.

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David Storey

David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player.

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David Szalay

David Szalay (born 1974 in Montreal, Quebec) is an English writer.

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Deirdre Madden

Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is an Irish writer from Toomebridge, County Antrim.

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Don Paterson

Donald "Don" Paterson, OBE, FRSL, FRSE (born 1963) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.

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Douglas Dunn

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic.

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Edward Docx

Edward Docx (born 1972) is a British writer.

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Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride (born 1976) is an Irish novelist whose debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

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Emily Perkins (novelist)

Emily Justine Perkins (born 1970 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand author.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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Fiction

Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.

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Fiona Benson (poet)

Fiona Benson (born 1978) is an English poet.

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Flaubert's Parrot

Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984 and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the following year.

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Frank Tuohy

John Francis ("Frank") Tuohy, (2 May 1925 – 11 April 1999) was an English writer and academic.

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Fred Potts (footballer)

Robert Frederick Potts, known as Fred Potts (born 1893) was an English professional footballer who played as a right back.

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Gaby Wood

Gaby Wood (born 1971) is an English journalist and the literary director of the Booker Prize foundation.

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Geoffrey Faber

Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889, Great Malvern – 31 March 1961) was a British academic, publisher, and poet.

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Geoffrey Hill

Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University.

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George MacBeth

George Mann MacBeth (19 January 1932 – 16 February 1992) was a Scottish poet and novelist.

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George Szirtes

George Szirtes (born 29 November 1948) is a British poet and translator from the Hungarian language into English.

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Gillian Clarke

Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937 in Cardiff) is a Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator.

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Glyn Maxwell

Glyn Maxwell (born 1962) is a British poet, playwright, librettist, and lecturer.

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Graham Swift

Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer.

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Greta Stoddart

Greta Stoddart (born 1966) is an English poet.

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Guy Vanderhaeghe

Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novels trilogy, The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing, and A Good Man set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West.

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Hugo Williams

Hugo Williams born Hugh Anthony Mordaunt Vyner Williams is a British poet, journalist and travel writer.

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J. G. Farrell

James Gordon Farrell (25 January 1935 – 11 August 1979) was an English-born novelist of Irish descent who spent much of his adult life in Ireland.

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J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Jacob Polley

Jacob Polley (born 1975) is an English poet from Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom.

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James Fenton

James Martin Fenton FRSL FRSA (born 25 April 1949, Lincoln) is an English poet, journalist and literary critic.

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Jean Sprackland

Jean Sprackland (born 1962) is an English poet and writer, the author of four collections of poetry and a book of essays about landscape and nature.

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Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.

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John Burnside

John Burnside (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline.

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John Fuller (poet)

John Fuller FRSL (born 1 January 1937) is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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Jon Silkin

Jon Silkin (2 December 1930 – 25 November 1997) was a British poet.

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Julia Copus

Julia Copus (born 1969 in London) is a British poet and children's writer.

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Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer.

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Justin Hill

Justin Hill is an English novelist.

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Kate Kellaway

Kate Kellaway (born 15 July 1957) is an English journalist and literary critic who writes for The Observer.

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Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale (born 1965) is an English writer and journalist.

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Kathleen Jamie

Professor Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is an award winning Scottish poet and essayist, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling.

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Kit Wright

Kit Wright (born 17 June 1944 in Crockham Hill, Kent) is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and (jointly) the Heinemann Award.

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Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet and novelist.

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Literary award

A literary award is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work.

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Livi Michael

Livi Michael, also known as Olivia Michael (15 March 1960, Manchester), is a British fiction writer who publishes children and adult novels.

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Man Descending

Man Descending is a collection of short stories written by Saskatchewan-born writer Guy Vanderhaeghe.

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Maurice Riordan

Maurice Riordan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, translator, and editor.

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Michael Donaghy

Michael Donaghy (May 24, 1954 – September 16, 2004) was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985.

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Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann (born 25 August 1957 in Freiburg, West Germany) is a German-born poet who writes in English and a translator of texts from German.

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Michael Longley

Michael Longley, CBE (born 27 July 1939) is a poet from Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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Nick Laird

Nicholas Laird (born 1975) is a Northern Irish novelist and poet.

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Pasmore (novel)

Pasmore is a 1972 novel by the English writer David Storey.

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet.

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Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read FRSL (born 7 March 1941) is an award-winning British novelist, historian and biographer.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a Canadian-born novelist and writer who lives and works in the United Kingdom.

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Richard B. Wright

Richard B. Wright,, (March 4, 1937 – February 7, 2017) was a Canadian novelist.

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Ruth Padel

Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS (born 8 May 1946) is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, known for her nature writing and connections with music, science, Greece and conservation.

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Sam Leith

Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974 in Paddington, London) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of The Spectator.

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Sara Baume

Sara Baume (born 1984) is an Irish novelist.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.

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Self Help (novel)

Self Help (published as Pravda in the US) is a novel by English author Edward Docx, published in 2007 by Picador; it won Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize that year and was also long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.

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Shopping (novel)

Shopping is the debut novel by British author Gavin Kramer published in 1998 by Fourth Estate, it won the David Higham Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award.

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Shuttlecock (novel)

Shuttlecock was Graham Swift's second novel, a psychological thriller published in 1981 by Allen Lane.

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Stephen Romer

Stephen Romer, FRSL is an English poet, academic and literary critic.

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The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Hiding Place (novel)

The Hiding Place was the debut novel of Trezza Azzopardi, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000.

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The Monkey King (Mo novel)

The Monkey King is the debut novel of Timothy Mo, originally published in London in 1978 by André Deutsch.

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The Quantity Theory of Insanity

The Quantity Theory of Insanity is a collection of short stories by Will Self.

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The Story of the Weasel

Published in 1976, The Story of the Weasel is author Carolyn Slaughter's debut novel.

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Timothy Mo

Timothy Peter Mo (born 30December 1950) is a British novelist.

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Tom Paulin

Thomas Neilson Paulin (born 25 January 1949 in Leeds, England) is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature.

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Tony Harrison

Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright.

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Trezza Azzopardi

Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961) is a British writer.

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Troubles (novel)

Troubles is a 1970 novel by J. G. Farrell.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee.

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Will Self

William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and television personality.

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William McIlvanney

William McIlvanney (25 November 1936 – 5 December 2015) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Faber_Memorial_Prize

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