Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber. It recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a United Kingdom, Irish or Commonwealth author under 40 years of age on the date of publication, and is in alternating years awarded to poetry and fiction (including short stories).^[1]

The prize is worth £1500.^[2]

The prize jury, comprising three reviewers, is selected by literary editors of journals and newspapers that regularly publish reviews of poetry and fiction.^[3]

In its first year, the prize was awarded to Christopher Middleton and George MacBeth for poetry. The first win by a short-story collection, The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self, was in 1993.^[3]

Winners

Year	Author	Title	Section	Jury	Reference
1964	Christopher Middleton	Torse 3 Poems 1949–1961	Poetry		[4]
1964	George MacBeth	The Broken Places: Poems	Poetry		[5]
1965	Frank Tuohy	The Ice Saints	Fiction		[6]
1966	Jon Silkin	Nature Within Man	Poetry		[7]
1967	William McIlvanney	Remedy is None	Fiction		[1]
1967	John Noone	The Man with the Chocolate Egg	Fiction
1968	Seamus Heaney	Death of a Naturalist	Poetry		[8]
1969	Piers Paul Read	The Junkers	Fiction		[9]
1970	Geoffrey Hill	King Log	Poetry		[10]
1971	J. G. Farrell	Troubles	Fiction		[11]
1972	Tony Harrison	The Loiners	Poetry		[12]
1973	David Storey	Pasmore	Fiction		[13]
1974	John Fuller	Cannibals and Missionaries and Epistles to Several Persons	Poetry		[14]
1975	Richard B. Wright	In the Middle of a Life	Fiction
1976	Douglas Dunn	Love or Nothing	Poetry		[15]
1977	Carolyn Slaughter	The Story of the Weasel	Fiction
1978	David Harsent	Dreams of the Dead	Poetry		[16]
1978	Kit Wright	The Bear Looked Over the Mountain	Poetry
1979	Timothy Mo	The Monkey King	Fiction		[17]
1980	Hugo Williams	Love-Life	Poetry		[18]
1980	George Szirtes	The Slant Door	Poetry		[19]
1981	J. M. Coetzee	Waiting for the Barbarians	Fiction		[20]
1982	Paul Muldoon	Why Brownlee Left	Poetry		[21]
1982	Tom Paulin	The Strange Museum	Poetry		[22]
1983	Graham Swift	Shuttlecock	Fiction		[23]
1984	James Fenton	In Memory of War: Poems 1968-83	Poetry
1985	Julian Barnes	Flaubert's Parrot	Fiction		[24]
1986	David Scott	A Quiet Gathering	Poetry
1987	Guy Vanderhaeghe	Man Descending	Fiction		[25]
1988	Michael Hofmann	Acrimony: Poems	Poetry		[26]
1989	David Profumo	Sea Music	Fiction
1990	Michael Donaghy	Shibboleth	Poetry		[27]
1991	Carol Birch	The Fog Line	Fiction		[28]
1992	Paul Muldoon	Madoc: A Mystery	Poetry		[21]
1993	Will Self	The Quantity Theory of Insanity	Fiction		[29]
1994	John Burnside	Feast Days	Poetry	Helen Dunmore Nicolas Tredell Hugo Williams	[30][31]
1995	Livi Michael	Their Angel Reach	Fiction		[32]
1996	Kathleen Jamie	The Queen of Sheba	Poetry		[33]
1997	Emily Perkins	Not Her Real Name	Fiction		[34]
1998	Don Paterson	God's Gift to Women	Poetry	Robert Potts	[35]
1999	Gavin Kramer	Shopping	Fiction		[36]
2000	Kathleen Jamie	Jizzen	Poetry	Christina Patterson	[37]
2001	Trezza Azzopardi	The Hiding Place	Fiction		[38]
2002	Greta Stoddart	At Home in the Dark	Poetry		[39]
2003	Justin Hill	The Drink and Dream Teahouse	Fiction
2004	Glyn Maxwell	The Nerve: Poems	Poetry		[40]
2005	David Mitchell	Cloud Atlas	Fiction
2006	Alice Oswald	Woods Etc.	Poetry	Neil Corcoran, Lavinia Greenlaw, Ciaran Carson	[41][42]
2007	Edward Docx	Self Help	Fiction		[43]
2008	Nick Laird	On Purpose	Poetry	Jo Shapcott, Sam Leith, Michael Longley	[8]
2009	David Szalay	London and the South-East	Fiction	Kate Summerscale, Andrew Miller, Boyd Tonkin	[44][45]
2010	Kona Macphee	Perfect Blue	Poetry	Kate Kellaway, Bernard O'Donoghue, Stephen Romer	[1][46]
2011	Belinda McKeon	Solace	Fiction	Rachel Cusk, Jonathan Ruppin, Leo Robson	[47]
2012	Jacob Polley	The Havocs	Poetry	Jean Sprackland, Sarah Crown, Maurice Riordan	[48]
2013	Eimear McBride	A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing	Fiction	Deirdre Madden, Patrick Neale, Gaby Wood	[49][50]
2014	Fiona Benson	Bright Travellers	Poetry	Julia Copus, Ruth Padel, Max Porter	[51]
	Liz Berry	Black Country
2015	Sara Baume	Spill Simmer Falter Wither	Fiction		[52]
2016	Kim Moore	The Art of Falling	Poetry	Gillian Clarke, Tom Gatti, Katharine Towers	[53]
2017	Gwendoline Riley	First Love	Fiction	Lorien Kite, Susie Nicklin, Evie Wyld	[54]