WH Smith Literary AwardWinner

Given by WHSmith

47 Works 98,144 Livros 2,032 Críticas ½ 3.8
The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the mostrar mais British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winner (47), Shortlist (2)
Categorias:
Todos, No Category (47)
Anos:
Todos, 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1), 1962 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (1), 1959 (1)

Winner 47

ObraAno
The Plot Against America por Philip Roth2005
The Time of Our Singing por Richard Powers2004
The Little Friend por Donna Tartt2003
Atonement por Ian McEwan2002
The Human Stain por Philip Roth2001
The Soldier's Return por Melvyn Bragg2000
Master Georgie por Beryl Bainbridge1999
Tales from Ovid por Ted Hughes1998
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 por Orlando Figes1997
Landscape and Memory por Simon Schama1996
Open Secrets por Alice Munro1995
A Suitable Boy por Vikram Seth1994
Daughters of the House por Michèle Roberts1993
The Scramble for Africa: 1876–1912 por Thomas Pakenham1992
Omeros por Derek Walcott1991
A Careless Widow and Other Stories por V. S. Pritchett1990
A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88 por Christopher Hill1989
The Fatal Shore por Robert Hughes1988
Collected Poems: 1953-1985 por Elizabeth Jennings1987
The Good Terrorist por Doris Lessing1986
The Pork Butcher por David Hughes1985
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-82 por Philip Larkin1984
Wise Virgin por A. N. Wilson1983
Last waltz in Vienna por George Clare1982
The Shooting Party por Isabel Colegate1981
Selected Poems, 1950–1975 por Thom Gunn1980
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History por Mark Girouard1979
A Time of Gifts por Patrick Leigh Fermor1978
Slim: The Standardbearer : A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim (Wordsworth Military Library) por Ronald Lewin1977
North por Seamus Heaney1976
Wilfred Owen por Jon Stallworthy1975
Temporary Kings por Anthony Powell1974
Catholics por Brian Moore1973
The lost country por Kathleen Raine1972
New lives, new landscapes por Nan Fairbrother1971
The French Lieutenant's Woman por John Fowles1970
John Keats por Robert Gittings1968
The Mimic Men por V. S. Naipaul1968
Wide Sargasso Sea por Jean Rhys1967
A Child Possessed por R. C. Hutchinson1966
Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918 por Leonard Woolf1965
Meditations On a Hobby Horse and Other Essays On the Theory of Art por E. H. Gombrich1964
The Birthday King por Gabriel Fielding1963
We Think The World of You por J. R. Ackerley1962
Friday's Footprint and Other Stories por Nadine Gordimer1961
Cider with Rosie por Laurie Lee1960
Voss por Patrick White1959

Descrições

The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. (English, Member-written)
discontinued in 2005 (Russian, Member-written)

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