WH Smith Literary Award

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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 näytä lisää 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. näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (47), Shortlist (2)
Luokat:
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2005 (1), 2004 (2), 2003 (1), 2002 (2), 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

TeosVuosi
Salajuoni Amerikkaa vastaan (tekijä: Philip Roth)2005
The Time of Our Singing (tekijä: Richard Powers)2004
Pieni ystävä (tekijä: Donna Tartt)2003
Sovitus (tekijä: Ian McEwan)2002
Ihmisen tahra (tekijä: Philip Roth)2001
The Soldier's Return (tekijä: Melvyn Bragg)2000
Master Georgie (tekijä: Beryl Bainbridge)1999
Tales from Ovid (tekijä: Ted Hughes)1998
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 (tekijä: Orlando Figes)1997
Landscape and Memory (tekijä: Simon Schama)1996
Julkisia salaisuuksia : kertomuksia (tekijä: Alice Munro)1995
Sopiva nuori mies (tekijä: Vikram Seth)1994
Daughters of the House (tekijä: Michèle Roberts)1993
The Scramble for Africa: 1876–1912 (tekijä: Thomas Pakenham)1992
Omeros (tekijä: Derek Walcott)1991
A Careless Widow and Other Stories (tekijä: V. S. Pritchett)1990
A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88 (tekijä: Christopher Hill)1989
The Fatal Shore (tekijä: Robert Hughes)1988
Collected Poems: 1953-1985 (tekijä: Elizabeth Jennings)1987
Hyvä terroristi (tekijä: Doris Lessing)1986
The Pork Butcher (tekijä: David Hughes)1985
Required writing : miscellaneous pieces, 1955–1982 (tekijä: Philip Larkin)1984
Wise Virgin (tekijä: A. N. Wilson)1983
Last waltz in Vienna (tekijä: George Clare)1982
The Shooting Party (tekijä: Isabel Colegate)1981
Selected Poems, 1950–1975 (tekijä: Thom Gunn)1980
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (tekijä: Mark Girouard)1979
A Time of Gifts (tekijä: Patrick Leigh Fermor)1978
Slim: The Standardbearer : A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim (Wordsworth Military Library) (tekijä: Ronald Lewin)1977
North (tekijä: Seamus Heaney)1976
Wilfred Owen (tekijä: Jon Stallworthy)1975
Temporary Kings (tekijä: Anthony Powell)1974
Catholics (tekijä: Brian Moore)1973
The lost country (tekijä: Kathleen Raine)1972
New lives, new landscapes (tekijä: Nan Fairbrother)1971
Ranskalaisen luutnantin nainen (tekijä: John Fowles)1970
John Keats (tekijä: Robert Gittings)1968
Vallan hinta (tekijä: V. S. Naipaul)1968
Siintää Sargassomeri (tekijä: Jean Rhys)1967
A Child Possessed (tekijä: R. C. Hutchinson)1966
Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918 (tekijä: Leonard Woolf)1965
Meditations On a Hobby Horse and Other Essays On the Theory of Art (tekijä: E. H. Gombrich)1964
The Birthday King (tekijä: Gabriel Fielding)1963
We Think The World of You (tekijä: J. R. Ackerley)1962
Friday's Footprint and Other Stories (tekijä: Nadine Gordimer)1961
Cider with Rosie (tekijä: Laurie Lee)1960
Voss (tekijä: Patrick White)1959

Shortlist 2

TeosKategoriaVuosi
Harry Potter ja Feeniksin kilta (tekijä: J. K. Rowling)2004
Mahtava Morris ja sivistyneet siimahännät (tekijä: Terry Pratchett)Children's Literature2002

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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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