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Guardian First Book Award

The Guardian first book award was established in 1999 to reward the finest new literary talent with a £10,000 prize for an author's first book. The award is open to writing across all genres. It is unique among book awards as debut works of fiction are judged alongside those of non-fiction.

Website: www.guardian.co.uk/books/guardianfirstbookaward

Winners

Year Title Author
2009 An Elegy for Easterly Petina Gappah Shortlist...
2008 The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Alex Ross Shortlist...
2007 Children of the Revolution Dinaw Mengestu Shortlist...
2006 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Yiyun Li Shortlist...
2005 Stuart: A Life Backwards Alexander Masters Shortlist...
2004 Mutants Armand Marie Leroi Shortlist...
2003 Mountains of the Mind Robert Macfarlane Shortlist...
2002 Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer Shortlist...
2001 Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware Shortlist...
2000 White Teeth Zadie Smith Shortlist...