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- Philip Pullman
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For a first novel by an author over the age of 60
2005
Lauro Martines Loredana £4,000 (Jonathan Cape)
2004
William Newton The Two Pound Tram £4,000 (Bloomsbury)
2003
Margaret Kaine Ring of Clay £4,000 (Poolbeg)
2002
Zvi Jagendorf Wolfy and the Strudelbakers £2,000 (Dewi Lewis Publishing)
2001
Michael Richardson The Pig Bin £2,000 (Tindal Street Press)
2000
David Crackanthorpe Stolen Marches £2,000 (Headline)
1999
Ingrid Mann The Danube Testament £2,000 (Bellew Publishing)
1998
A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies £2,000 (Arcadia Books)
1997
Barbara Hardy London Lovers £2,000 (Peter Owen)
1996
Samuel Lock As Luck Would Have It £2,000 (Jonathan Cape)
1995
Fred Plisner Gravity Is Getting Me Down £2,000 (Heinemann)
1994
George Hummer Red Branch £2,000 (Sinclair Stevenson)
1993
Brian O’Doherty The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. £2,000 (Chatto & Windus)
1992
Hugh Leonard Parnell and the English Woman £2,000 (Andre Deutsch)
1991
Judith Hubback The Sea Has Many Voices £2,000 (Aidan)
Awards and Prize Winners 2008
Betty Trask Prize and Awards
Betty Trask Prizes and Awards (past winners)
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets (past winners)
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Elizabeth Longford Prize (past winners)
Encore Award
Encore Award (past winners)
Eric Gregory Awards
Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards (winners)
McKitterick Prize
McKitterick Prize (past winners)
Prizes for fiction and non-fiction
Somerset Maugham Awards
Somerset Maugham Awards (past winners)
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (past winners)
Tom Gallon Trust Award and The Olive Cook Prize
Tom-Gallon Award for a short story (past winners)
Travelling Scholarships