WH Smith Literary Award

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The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the toon meer British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (47), Shortlist (2)
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Jaren:
Alle, 2005 (1), 2004 (2), 2003 (1), 2002 (2), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1), 1962 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (1), 1959 (1)

Winner 47

WerkJaar
Het complot tegen Amerika door Philip Roth2005
Het zingen van de tijd door Richard Powers2004
De kleine vriend door Donna Tartt2003
Boetekleed door Ian McEwan2002
De menselijke smet door Philip Roth2001
The Soldier's Return door Melvyn Bragg2000
Master Georgie door Beryl Bainbridge1999
Vertellingen naar Ovidius (Vierentwintig passages uit de Metamorfosen) door Ted Hughes1998
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 door Orlando Figes1997
Landschap en herinnering door Simon Schama1996
Open Secrets door Alice Munro1995
De geschikte jongen door Vikram Seth1994
Daughters of the House door Michele Roberts1993
The Scramble for Africa: 1876–1912 door Thomas Pakenham1992
Omeros door Derek Walcott1991
A Careless Widow and Other Stories door V. S. Pritchett1990
A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88 door Christopher Hill1989
De fatale kust door Robert Hughes1988
Collected Poems: 1953-1985 door Elizabeth Jennings1987
De barmhartige terroriste door Doris Lessing1986
The Pork Butcher door David Hughes1985
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-82 door Philip Larkin1984
Wise Virgin door A. N. Wilson1983
Last waltz in Vienna door George Clare1982
Het jachtgezelschap door Isabel Colegate1981
Selected Poems, 1950–1975 door Thom Gunn1980
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History door Mark Girouard1979
Langs Rijn en Donau : Te voet naar Constantinopel : van Hoek van Holland naar Budapest door Patrick Leigh Fermor1978
Slim: The Standardbearer : A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim (Wordsworth Military Library) door Ronald Lewin1977
North door Seamus Heaney1976
Wilfred Owen door Jon Stallworthy1975
Temporary Kings door Anthony Powell1974
Catholics door Brian Moore1973
The lost country door Kathleen Raine1972
New lives, new landscapes door Nan Fairbrother1971
Het liefje van de Franse luitenant door John Fowles1970
John Keats door Robert Gittings1968
De mimitators door V. S. Naipaul1968
Sargasso Zee : Roman door Jean Rhys1967
A Child Possessed door R. C. Hutchinson1966
Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918 door Leonard Woolf1965
Meditations On a Hobby Horse and Other Essays On the Theory of Art door E. H. Gombrich1964
The Birthday King door Gabriel Fielding1963
We Think The World of You door J. R. Ackerley1962
Friday's Footprint and Other Stories door Nadine Gordimer1961
Cider with Rosie door Laurie Lee1960
Voss door Patrick White1959

Shortlist 2

WerkCategorieJaar
Harry Potter en de Orde van de Feniks door J. K. Rowling2004
Mirakelse Maurits en zijn gestudeerde knaagdieren door Terry PratchettChildren's Literature2002

Beschrijvingen

The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. (English, Door lid geschreven)
discontinued in 2005 (Russian, Door lid geschreven)

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