The Ruth Hadden Memorial Award is a former award for the best first novel published in Britain, which was administered by the Booktrust. It was awarded in the early 1990s and has now been discontinued.[1]
The award was unusual in that the prize was awarded to a completed manuscript before acceptance by a publisher, and the prize money (in 1994, £2000) went to the publishers of the novel to spend on promoting it.[2][3][4]
Winners edit
- 1991: The Last Room, by Elean Thomas[5]
- 1992: Leaving the Light On, by Catherine Merriman[4][6]
- 1993: In the Place of Fallen Leaves, by Tim Pears[7]
- 1994: Pig, by Andrew Cowan[3][8]
References edit
- ^ Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, Booktrust (accessed 18 February 2009)
- ^ Andrew Motion (14 February 1993). Books (Last Word): Egos and quids. The Observer, p. 61
- ^ a b Louisa Young (28 August 1994). Love thy neighbour; Books. The Sunday Times, p. 8
- ^ a b David Robson (8 November 1992). Politics, prickles and perversity. David Robson considers a political Julian Barnes and other new fiction. The Sunday Telegraph, p. 80
- ^ Johnson, Buzz. Elean Thomas: Writer with a message of human rights. The Guardian (31 July 2004) (accessed 18 February 2009)
- ^ Academi: Members Committee Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 18 February 2009)
- ^ "Tim Pears", British Council Literature, British Council, retrieved 26 January 2016
- ^ "Professor Andrew Cowan", British Council Literature, British Council, retrieved 26 January 2016
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