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 the 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 £1000.

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	Reference
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	Nicholas Tredell
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

External links

• The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize website

• International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1070.
• (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Ray 2007, p. 356.
• Head 2006, p. 922.
• International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 720.
• Ray 2007, p. 232.
• International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 557
• International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 684.
• Ray 2007, p. 373.
• International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1666.
• Ray 2007, p. 35.
• International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 732.
• Head 2006, p. 104.
• International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 242.
• Head 2006, p. 739.
• International Who's Who in Poetry 2005, p. 1223.
• Ray 2007, p. 351.