Literary Awards

Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Adapted Screenplay

1995: Alan Bennett   The Madness of King George   (nomination)
1996: Anthony Minghella   The English Patient   (nomination)

Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Original Screenplay

2005: Mike Leigh   Vera Drake   (nomination)

Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Screenplay

1982: Trevor Griffiths   Reds   (nomination)

Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Screenplay Adaptation

1989: Christopher Hampton   Dangerous Liaisons

Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Writing

1997: Mike Leigh   Secrets and Lies   (nomination)
2000: Mike Leigh   Topsy Turvy   (nomination)

African Literature Association Fonlon-Nichols Award (USA)

2002: Jack Mapanje  

Age Book of the Year Award

2004: M. J. Hyland   How The Light Gets In   (shortlist)

Alan Paton Award for Fiction

2003: André Brink   The Other Side of Silence

Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature (Italy)

2000: Anita Desai  

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize

1992: Susan Wicks   Singing Underwater
1995: Gwyneth Lewis   Parables and Faxes
1997: Robin Robertson   A Painted Field

Alfred Bradley Award

1998: Peter Straughan   The Ghost of Federico Garcia Lorca Which Can Also Be Used as a Table

Alice Hunt Bartlett Award

1969: Tom Raworth   The Relation Ship
1977: Kit Wright   The Bear Looked Over the Mountain
1981: Carol Rumens   Unplayed Music   (joint winner)
1983: Medbh McGuckian   The Flower Master
1984: David J. Constantine   Watching for Dolphins
1984: Alison Fell   Kisses for Mayakovsky
1987: Helen Dunmore   The Sea Skater
1987: Ciaran Carson   The Irish for No
1988: Sujata Bhatt   Brunizem

Allied Irish Banks' Prize

1973: John Banville   Birchwood
1976: William Trevor  

Amazon.co.uk Writers' Bursary

2001: Sarah May   Spanish City

American Ireland Fund Literary Award

1975: John Banville   Dr Copernicus
2004: Paul Muldoon  

American Library Association Award

1997: Nicholas Shakespeare   The Dancer Upstairs

American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Award

1984: Gillian Cross   On The Edge
1993: Tim Winton   Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo
2003: Geraldine McCaughrean   The Kite Rider

American Library Association GLBT Roundtable Book Award

2000: Sarah Waters   Affinity

American Library Association National Book for Children Award (USA)

2006: Meja Mwangi   The Mzungu Boy

American Library Association Notable Book for Children Award

2004: Geraldine McCaughrean   Stop The Train

Américas Honor Award (USA)

1997: Valerie Bloom   Fruits

Andersen Award (Italy)

2000: Aidan Chambers   Postcards from No Man's Land

Angel Literary Award

1985: Rose Tremain   The Swimming Pool Season
1989: Rose Tremain   Restoration

Angus Book Award

1996: Julie Bertagna   The Spark Gap   (shortlist)
1999: Tim Bowler   River Boy
2000: Tim Bowler   Shadows
2001: Geraldine McCaughrean   The Kite Rider   (shortlist)
2004: Julie Bertagna   Exodus   (shortlist)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

2007: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   Half of a Yellow Sun   (joint winner)
2008: Mohsin Hamid   The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Annual Contributors' Prize, Canadian Fiction Magazine

1985: Rohinton Mistry  

Anthony Award for Best First Mystery Novel

2001: Stephen Booth   Black Dog   (shortlist)

Anthony Award for Best Novel

1995: Val McDermid   Crack Down   (shortlist)
2001: Val McDermid   A Place of Execution

Antoinette Perry Award for Best Play

1968: Tom Stoppard   Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
1976: Tom Stoppard   Travesties
1984: Tom Stoppard   The Real Thing

Arena Magazine Man of the Year Award (fiction)

2005: Ewan Morrison     (shortlist)

Aristeion Literary Prize

1996: Salman Rushdie  

Aristeion Translation Prize

1996: George Szirtes   New Life   (shortlist)

Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction

1987: Margaret Atwood   The Handmaid's Tale
1992: Stephen Baxter   Raft   (shortlist)
1994: Stephen Baxter   Coalescent   (shortlist)
1996: Stephen Baxter   The Time Ships   (shortlist)
1997: Stephen Baxter   Voyage   (shortlist)
1998: Stephen Baxter   Titan   (shortlist)
2000: Stephen Baxter   Time   (shortlist)
2008: Sarah Hall   The Carhullan Army   (shortlist)

Arthur Welton Award

1992: Livi Michael   Under a Thin Moon

Arts Council Book of the Year Award

2005: Trezza Azzopardi   Remember Me   (shortlist)

Arts Council England Decibel Award

2008: Daljit Nagra   Look We Have Coming to Dover!
2008: Mohsin Hamid   The Reluctant Fundamentalist   (shortlist)

Arts Council Grant/Award for Translation

1970: Elaine Feinstein  
1979: Elaine Feinstein  
1981: Elaine Feinstein  

Arts Council Macaulay Fellowship

1973: John Banville   Birchwood
2002: Sinead Morrissey  

Arts Council National Book Award

1979: Penelope Lively   Treasures of Time

Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction

1981: Ruth Rendell   Lake of Darkness

Arts Council Northern Ireland Major Individual Artist Award

2006: Glenn Patterson  

Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award

1988: William Owen Roberts   Y Pla
1990: Menna Elfyn   Aderyn Bach Mewn Llaw: Cerddi 1976-1990
1992: Robin Llywelyn   Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn
1992: Christopher Meredith   Griffri   (shortlist)
1992: Emyr Humphreys   Bonds of Attachment
1993: Robert Minhinnick   Watching the Fire Eater
1998: Emyr Humphreys   The Gift of a Daughter
2000: Gwyneth Lewis   Y Llofrudd Iaith
2000: Sarah Waters   Affinity   (shortlist)
2000: Sheenagh Pugh   Stonelight
2001: Owen Sheers   The Blue Book   (shortlist)
2001: Stephen Knight   Mr. Schnitzel
2001: Desmond Barry   The Chivalry of Crime   (shortlist)
2002: William Owen Roberts   Paradwys   (shortlist)
2003: Sheenagh Pugh   The Beautiful Lie   (shortlist)
2004: Niall Griffiths   Stump
2005: Owen Sheers   The Dust Diaries
2005: Richard Collins   The Land as Viewed from the Sea   (shortlist)

Arts Council of Wales Fiction Prize

1989: Christopher Meredith   Shifts

Arts Council of Wales International Writers Prize

1982: Margaret Atwood   Bodiy Harm
1990: Derek Walcott  

Arts Council of Wales Literature Award

1970: Dannie Abse   Selected Poems
1979: Dannie Abse   Pythagoras