Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
# 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).

The prize is worth £1500.

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

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.

## Winners

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