David Higham Prize for Fiction

The David Higham Prize for Fiction was inaugurated in 1975 to mark the 80th birthday of David Higham, literary agent, and was awarded annually to a citizen of the Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa for a first novel or book of short stories. It was cancelled in 1999 due to "the lack of publicity its winners received."^[1]

Past winners

• 1975 - Jane Gardam - Black Faces, White Faces and Matthew Vaughan - Chalky
• 1976 - Caroline Blackwood - The Stepdaughter
• 1977 - Patricia Finney - A Shadow of Gulls
• 1978 - Leslie Norris - Sliding: Short Stories
• 1979 - John Harvey - The Plate Shop
• 1980 - Ted Harriot - Keep On Running
• 1981 - Christopher Hope - A Separate Development
• 1982 - Glyn Hughes - Where I Used to Play on the Green
• 1983 - R. M. Lamming - The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti
• 1984 - James Buchan - A Parish of Rich Women
• 1985 - Patricia Ferguson - Family Myths and Legends
• 1986 - Jim Crace - Continent
• 1987 - Adam Zameenzad - The Thirteenth House
• 1988 - Carol Birch - Life in the Palace
• 1989 - Tim O'Grady - Motherland^[2]
• 1990 - Russell Celyn Jones - Soldiers and Innocents^[3]
• 1991 - John Loveday - Halo^[4]
• 1992 - Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia^[5]
• 1993 - Nicola Barker - Love Your Enemies^[6]
• 1994 - Fred D'Aguiar - The Longest Memory^[7]
• 1995 - Vikram Chandra - Red Earth and Pouring Rain^[8]
• 1996 - Linda Grant - The Cast Iron Shore^[9]
• 1997 - Ronald Wright - A Scientific Romance^[10]
• 1998 - Gavin Kramer - Shopping^[11]