The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom

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 literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors

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. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of The Political Quarterly

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but had also written a novel which was never published. The prize is awarded annually for a first novel (which need not have been published) by an author over 40. As of 2009, the value of the prize was £4000.

The McKitterick Prize was first awarded in 1990.

List of prize winners

Year	Author	Book
1990	Simon Mawer Simon Mawer Simon Mawer is a British author who currently lives in Italy.-Life and work:Educated at Millfield School in Somerset and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Mawer took a degree in Zoology and has worked as a biology teacher for most of his life. He published his first novel, Chimera, at the...	Chimera
1991	John Loveday John Loveday Dr. John Stephen Loveday is an experimental physicist working in high pressure research. He was educated at Coopers School in Chislehurst and at the University of Bristol. He currently works at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland....	A Summer to Halo
1992	Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places , A History of Reading , The Library at Night and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography ; and novels such as News...	News from a Foreign Country Came
1993	Andrew Barrow	Tap Dancer
1994	Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore is a British poet, novelist and children's writer. Educated at the University of York, she now lives in Bristol....	Zennor in Darkness
1995	Christopher Bigsby Christopher Bigsby Christopher Bigsby is a British literary analyst and novelist, with more than forty books to his credit. Earlier in his writing career, his books were published under the name C. W. E. Bigsby....	Hester
1996	Stephen Blanchard	Gagarin and I
1997	Patricia Duncker Patricia Duncker Patricia Duncker is a British novelist and academic.-Academic career:Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Duncker attended Bedales school in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at Newnham College, Cambridge...	Hallucinating Foucault Hallucinating Foucault Hallucinating Foucault is a 1996 novel by Patricia Duncker.-Plot introduction:A postgraduate student goes to France to meet the object of his thesis, Paul Michel.-Plot summary:...
1998	Eli Gottlieb	The Boy Who Went Away
1999	Magnus Mills Magnus Mills - Background :Magnus Mills was born in Birmingham and brought up in Bristol. After graduating with an economics degree from Wolverhampton Polytechnic, he started a masters degree at the University of Warwick but dropped out before completion....	The Restraint of Beasts The Restraint of Beasts The Restraint of Beasts is a tragicomic debut novel, written by Magnus Mills. In it, an anonymous narrator 'the foreman' works for a Scottish fencing company, run by Donald who is consumed by work and the desire for 'efficiency'...
2000	Chris Dolan	Ascension Day
2001	Giles Waterfield	The Long Afternoon
2002	Manil Suri Manil Suri Manil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer, most notable for his first novel, The Death of Vishnu, which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year...	The Death of Vishnu The Death of Vishnu The Death of Vishnu is a novel by Indian-American writer Manil Suri. The book is about the spiritual journey of a dying man named Vishnu living on a landing of a Bombay apartment building, as well as the lives of the residents living in the building. The novel was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner...
2003	Mary Lawson Mary Lawson Mary Lawson is a Canadian novelist.Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. Her father worked as a research chemist...	Crow Lake Crow Lake (novel) Crow Lake is a 2002 first novel written by Canadian author Mary Lawson. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in the same year and won the McKitterick Prize in 2003...
2004	Mark Haddon Mark Haddon Mark Haddon is an English novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.- Life and work :...	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 novel by British writer Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book...
2005	Lloyd Jones	Mr Vogel
2006	Peter Pouncey Peter Pouncey Peter R. Pouncey is an author, classicist, and university administrator. The son of a British father and a French-British mother, he was born in Tsingtao , China....	Rules for Old Men Waiting
2007	Reina James Reina James Reina James is a British author. She has written two novels, the first of which won the Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize in 2007.-Early life:...	This Time of Dying
2008	Jennie Walker	24 for 3 24 for 3 24 for 3 is a 2007 novella by Jennie Walker ; it won the 2008 McKitterick Prize. and was selected by Karl Miller of the Times Literary Supplement as one of his books of the year in 2008.-Title and setting:The title comes from England's second innings score at the start of the...
2009	Chris Hannan	Missy
2010	Raphael Selbourne	Beauty