McKitterick Prize

The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of The Political Quarterly 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

2020s

2022

• Winner: David Annand for Peterdown (Little, Brown Book Group/Corsair Imprint)
• Runner-up: Lisa Taddeo for Animal (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)

2021

• Winner: Elaine Feeney for As You Were (Harvill Secker, Vintage)
• Runner-up: Deepa Anappara for Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (Chatto & Windus, Vintage)

2020

• Winner: Claire Adam for Golden Child
• Runner-up: Taffy Brodesser-Akner for Fleishman is in Trouble

2010s

2019

• Winner: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott for Swan Song
• Runner-up: Carys Davies for West

2018

• Winner: Anietie Isong for Radio Sunrise
• Runner-up: Frances Maynard for The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr

2017

• Winner: David Dyer for The Midnight Watch
• Runner-up: Austin Duffy for This Living & immortal Thing

2016

• Winner: Petina Gappah for The Book of Memory
• Runner-up: Nick Coleman for Pillow Man

2015

• Winner: Robert Allison for The Letter Bearer
• Runner-up: Paul Ewen for Francis Pug: How To Be A Public Author

2014

• Winner: Gabriel Weston for Dirty Work
• Runner-up: Gabriel Gbadamosi for Vauxhall

2013

• Winner: Alison Moore for The Lighthouse
• Runner-up: Caroline Brothers for Hinterland

2012

• Winner: Ginny Baily for Africa Junction
• Runner-up: Cressida Connolly for My Former Heart

2011

• Winner: Emma Henderson for Grace Williams Says It Loud
• Runner-up: Frances Kay for Micka

2010

• Raphael Selbourne for Beauty

2000s

2009

• Chris Hannan for Missy

2008

• Jennie Walker for 24 for 3

2007

• Reina James for This Time of Dying

2006

• Peter Pouncey for Rules for Old Men Waiting

2005

• Lloyd Jones for Mr Vogel

2004

• Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2003

• Mary Lawson for Crow Lake

2002

• Manil Suri for The Death of Vishnu

2001

• Giles Waterfield for The Long Afternoon

2000

• Chris Dolan for Ascension Day

1990s

1999

• Magnus Mills for The Restraint of Beasts

1998

• Eli Gottlieb for The Boy Who Went Away

1997

• Patricia Duncker for Hallucinating Foucault

1996

• Stephen Blanchard for Gagarin and I

1995

• Christopher Bigsby for Hester

1994

• Helen Dunmore for Zennor in Darkness

1993

• Andrew Barrow for Tap Dancer

1992

• Alberto Manguel for News from a Foreign Country Came

1991

• John Loveday for Halo

1990

• Simon Mawer for Chimera

Sources

• "Past winners of the McKitterick Prize". Society of Authors.