Guardian Fiction Award Winners

After 1999 this award is known as the Guardian First Book Award

Guardian First Book Award website

Winners

	Trumpet by Jackie Kay 3.96 avg rating — 594 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1998)	My rating:
	Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels 3.93 avg rating — 3,769 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1997)	My rating:
	Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane 3.72 avg rating — 812 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1996)	My rating:
	Heart's Journey in Winter by James Buchan 2.25 avg rating — 4 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1995)	My rating:
	Debatable Land by Candia McWilliam 2.60 avg rating — 10 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1994)	My rating:
	The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker 4.02 avg rating — 1,620 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1993)	My rating:
	Poor Things by Alasdair Gray 4.08 avg rating — 508 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1992)	My rating:
	The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd 3.27 avg rating — 33 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1991)	My rating:
	Shape-Shifter by Pauline Melville 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1990)	My rating:
	Rosehill: Portraits from a Midlands City. by Carol Lake 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Guardian Fiction Award (1989)	My rating:
	Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann 3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1988)	My rating:
	The Levels by Peter Benson 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1987)	My rating:
	Continent by Jim Crace 3.59 avg rating — 131 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1986)	My rating:
	Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd 3.59 avg rating — 651 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1985)	My rating:
	Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard 3.90 avg rating — 3,718 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1984)	My rating:
	Waterland by Graham Swift 3.95 avg rating — 1,870 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1983)	My rating:
	Where I Used to Play on the Green by Glyn Hughes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1982)	My rating:
	Kepler: A novel by John Banville 3.73 avg rating — 162 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1981)	My rating:
	A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr 4.03 avg rating — 761 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1980)	My rating:
	The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera 3.88 avg rating — 57 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1979)	My rating:
	Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan 3.46 avg rating — 24 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1978)	My rating:
	Conditie van muzak by Michael Moorcock 3.77 avg rating — 47 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1977)	My rating:
	Falstaff by Robert Nye 4.07 avg rating — 55 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1976)	My rating:
	Friends And Romans by Sylvia Clayton 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1975)	My rating:
	The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge 3.23 avg rating — 198 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1974)	My rating:
	G. by John Berger 3.39 avg rating — 368 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1972)	My rating:
	When Did You Last See Your Father? by Margaret Blount 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1970)	My rating:
	Poor Lazarus by Maurice Leitch 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1969)	My rating:
	A Song And Dance by P.J. Kavanagh 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1968)	My rating:
	Unknown Book 2937551 by Unknown Author 552 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Guardian Fiction Award (1967)	My rating: