Guildford Arts Book Prize
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The Guildford Arts Book Prize has been awarded annually for the best first novel by an author living anywhere in the UK, and announced at the Guildford
Book Festival. Between 1998 and 2005 it was sponsored by Pendleton May and known as the Pendleton May First Novel Award, in 2006 by Goss & Co. In, and in 2007 by Jelf Group PLC. The winners have been :
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Book Festival. Between 1998 and 2005 it was sponsored by Pendleton May and known as the Pendleton May First Novel Award, in 2006 by Goss & Co. In, and in 2007 by Jelf Group PLC. The winners have been :
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- 1997 : Jeremy PoolmanJeremy PoolmanJeremy Poolman is a British novelist, biographer and artist. His first novel, Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona, won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, UK....
for Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona - 1998 : Steve Lundin for This River AwakensThis River AwakensThis River Awakens is the first novel by Canadian author Steve Lundin, best known by his pseudonym Steven Erikson. The book was first published in 1998, with funding by the Manitoba Arts Council.-Plot summary:...
- 1997 : Jeremy Poolman
- Pendleton May First Novel Award :
- 1999 : ?
- 2000 : ?
- 2001 : Shamim SarifShamim SarifShamim Sarif is a novelist and filmmaker of South Asian and South African heritage. Her roots inspired her to write her award-winning debut novel, The World Unseen, which explores issues of race, gender and sexuality, which she later adapted into a film starring Lisa Ray, shown at the London Film...
for The World UnseenThe World UnseenThe World Unseen is a 2008 historical drama film written and directed by Shamim Sarif, adapted from her own novel. The film is set in 1950s Cape Town, South Africa during the beginning of apartheid... - 2002 : Hari Kunzru for The Impressionist
- 2003 : Babs Horton for A Jarful Of Angels
- 2004 : Panos KarnezisPanos KarnezisPanagiotis Karnezis is a Greek writer. Born in Greece in 1967, he moved to England in 1992 to study Engineering. He was later awarded a M.A. in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. His first collection of stories, Little Infamies, was published in 2002...
for The MazeThe Maze (2004)The Maze is a novel published by the Greek writer Panos Karnezis in 2002. The book is the story of the odyssey of a Greek army brigade in Anatolia trying to make their way back home.The Maze was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award.... - 2005 : Clare Clark for The Great Stink
- Goss First Novel Award :
- 2006 : Mike Stocks for White Man FallingWhite Man Falling (novel)White Man Falling is the debut novel by British author Mike Stocks. It won the 2006 Goss First Novel Award.-External links:* *...
- 2006 : Mike Stocks for White Man Falling
- Jelf Group First Novel Award :
- Catherine O'FlynnCatherine O'FlynnCatherine O'Flynn, born in 1970, is a British writer. Her novel, What Was Lost, won the prestigious First Novel prize at the Costa Book Awards in 2008.-Biography:...
for What Was LostWhat Was LostWhat Was Lost is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later...
- Catherine O'Flynn
- First Novel Award
- 2008 Ross RaisinRoss RaisinRoss Raisin is a British novelist. He was born in Keighley in Yorkshire, and after attending Bradford Grammar School he studied English at King's College London, which was followed by a period as a trainee wine bar manager and a postgraduate degree in creative writing at Goldsmith's...
for God's Own Country - 2009 award in abeyance
- 2008 Ross Raisin