This list was compiled by Essex CC Libraries. The list not only gives details of who won what and when but also gives the available formats for each title.
Arthur C Clarke Award (1997)
The Arthur C Clarke Award is given to the best science fiction novel whose British first edition was published during the previous calendar year.
Amitav Ghosh The Calcutta Chromosome
MODERN Hbk 0330347586 (1996)
Pbk 03303053314 (1997)
The Betty Trask Awards
The Betty Trask Awards are presented by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom for the best first novel by a writer under the age of 35. The award started in 1983 and is limited to romantic and "traditional" writing.
1996
Meera Syal Anita and Me
MODERN 0006548768 (1997)
+ Spoken Word
1994
Nadeem Aslam Season of the Rainbirds
MODERN 0349105332 (1999)
1991
Amit Chaudhuri A Strange and Sublime Address - Winner!
MODERN 0749399612 (1992)
1987
H S Bhabra Gestures
MODERN b8813403 (1987)
Booker Prize
The Booker aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a British or Commonwealth author.
1999
Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting
MODERN 0701168943 (1999)
Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love
MODERN 0747543674 (1999)
1997
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things - Winner!
MODERN 0002255863 (1997)
1996
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
MODERN Hbk 0571176674 (1996)
Pbk 0571179363 (1991)
1995
Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh
(See Whitbread Prize)
1994
Romesh Gunesekera Reef
MODERN 1862070946 (1998)
Abdulrazak Gurnah Paradise
MODERN 0140233113 (1995)
1993
Caryl Phillips Crossing the River
MODERN 0330333046 (1994)
1991
Ben Okri The Famished Road - Winner!
MODERN 0099929309 (1992)
Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey
MODERN 0571165257 (1991)
Timothy Mo The Redundancy of Courage
MODERN 0099890607 (1992)
1989
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day - Winner!
MODERN 0571200737 (1999)
+ Large Print
+ Spoken Word
1988
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
MODERN 0963270702 (1994)
1987
Chinua Achebe Anthills of the Savannah
MODERN 0435905392 (1988)
1986
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World
(See Whitbread Prize)
Timothy Mo Insular Possession
MODERN 0330298100 (1987)
1984
Anita Desai In Custody
MODERN 0749394110 (1999)
+ Spoken Word
1983
Salman Rushdie Shame
MODERN 0099578611 (1995)
1982
Timothy Mo Sour Sweet
MODERN 0099962004 (1992)
+ Spoken Word
1981
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children - Winner!
MODERN 0099592517 (1998)
1980
Anita Desai Clear Light of Day
MODERN 0099276186 (1999)
1979
V S Naipaul A Bend in the River
MODERN B8100251 (1980)
1971
V S Naipaul In a Free State - Winner!
MODERN B7319640 (1973)
Guardian Fiction Prize
Awarded to a work of fiction by British of Commonwealth writer and published in the U.K.
1998
Jackie Kay Trumpet - Winner!
MODERN 0330331469 (1999)
1996
Meera Syal Anita and Me
(See Betty Trask Awards)
1990
Pauline Melville Shape-Shifter
SHORT STORIES 0330319353 (1991)
The Orange Prize
The criteria for the prize is that the novel is by a woman writing in English and published in Britain between 1 April and 31 March of the year the prize is awarded.
1998
Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist's Tale
(See Whitbread Book Awards)
Saga Prize
The SAGA Prize was founded in 1994 by author and actress Marsha Hunt to encourage unpublished Black novelists born in the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland.
1998
Ike Eze-anyika Canteen Culture - Winner!
1997
Judith Bryan Bernard and the Cloth Monkey - Winner!
MODERN Hbk 0002257351
Pbk 0006551963
1996
Joanna Traynor Sister Josephine - Winner!
MODERN Hbk 0747533776
Pbk 0747535116 (1998)
1995
Diran Adebayo Some Kind of Black
MODERN 186049143 (1996)
Whitbread Book Awards
The Whitbread Awards comprise the following: First Novel; Biography/Autobiography; Poetry; Childrens Book of the Year; and the Whitbread Book of the Year.
1997 First Novel
Pauline Melville The Ventriloquists Tale
MODERN Hbk 0747531501 (1997)
Pbk 0747535140 (1998)
+ Spoken word
1995 Novel
Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh
MODERN Hbk 0224038141 (1995)
Pbk 009959241 (1996)
+ Large Print
+ Spoken Word
1994 First Novel
Fred D'Aguiar The Longest Memory
HISTORICAL 0099462214 (1995)
0701162341 (1994 )
1990 First Novel
Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia
MODERN 0571200435 (1999)
+ Video
+ Spoken Word
1988 Novel
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
MODERN 0963270702 1994
1986 Novel and Book of the Year
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World
MODERN 057114716 (1999)
1973 Novel
Shiva Naipaul The Chip Chip Gatherers
MODERN b8512401 (1983)
