• 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...
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    Don Paterson (category T. S. Eliot Prize winners)
    several awards, including the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal...
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  • J. G. Farrell (category Booker Prize winners)
    rule. Troubles received the 1971 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and The Siege of Krishnapur received the 1973 Booker Prize. In 2010 Troubles was retrospectively...
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    Julian Barnes (category Booker Prize winners)
    include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was awarded the 2021 Jerusalem Prize. Barnes was born in Leicester, although...
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  • Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Prix Médicis Essai in 1985 and 1986 respectively...
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  • the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. American composer Philip Glass has also...
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  • Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Heinemann Award. After a...
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  • Long Miles. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was named the poetry book of the month for July 2013 by...
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  • Piers Paul Read (category James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients)
    his recent works. Read was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Junkers, the Hawthornden Prize and Somerset Maugham Award for Monk Dawson...
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    British Library catalogue. 1991: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Quantity Theory of Insanity 1998: Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review...
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  • Hugo Williams (category T. S. Eliot Prize winners)
    poetry book, Love-Life, Williams shared the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with George Szirtes. The Faber prize is awarded to "that volume of verse or prose...
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  • Timothy Mo (category James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients)
    novelist. His works have won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), and three of...
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  • A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (category Goldsmiths Prize-winning works)
    Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. The Guardian Book Club...
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  • Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2008. Go Giants is Laird's third collection, published by Faber and Faber in 2015. Laird's fourth...
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    John Burnside (category T. S. Eliot Prize winners)
    the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best...
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  • Book Prize (discontinued) Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (discontinued) Goldsmiths Prize Grindstone International Novel Prize Hawthornden Prize James...
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    Graham Swift (category James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients)
    Shuttlecock (1981) – winner of the 1983 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Waterland (1983) – shortlisted for Booker Prize Out of this World (1988) Ever After...
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    first book, Remedy is None, was published in 1966 and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1967. Docherty (1975), a portrait of a miner whose courage...
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  • chosen by Hilary Bailey of the New Fiction Society and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1979. A 10-part abridgement of the novel (by Margaret Busby)...
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  • Troubles (novel) (category Booker Prize-winning works)
    received upon its publication. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and, later, the Lost Man Booker Prize. It was adapted into a made-for-television...
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  • At Home in the Dark, was published in 2001 and won the 2002 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second collection, Salvation Jane, was published in 2009...
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  • collection. Black Country won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. Black Country...
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    Council Book Award for Love or Nothing 1976 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Love or Nothing 1981 Hawthornden Prize for St. Kilda's Parliament 1981 Fellow...
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  • December 2016). "Sara Baume's 'irresistible' debut novel wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on...
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  • published in 1998 by Fourth Estate. It won the David Higham Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award...
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  • Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889, Great Malvern – 31 March 1961) was a British academic, publisher, and poet. He was a nephew of the noted Catholic...
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    served on the judging panel for a number of literary prizes, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, the Costa Book Award, the...
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    Eimear McBride (category Goldsmiths Prize winners)
    Prize for Fiction winner for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing 2014 Folio Prize shortlist for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize...
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  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for First Love. 2017 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, for First Love. 2022 shortlisted for the Folio Prize, for My Phantoms...
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    novel. It won several major awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Betty Trask Prize, as well as being a 2001 Washington Post Book of...
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