Literary Awards

Eric Gregory Award

1967: David Harsent  
1968: Douglas Dunn  
1971: James Fenton  
1972: Andrew Greig  
1972: Tony Curtis  
1972: Richard Berengarten  
1974: Penelope Shuttle  
1976: Tom Paulin  
1976: Andrew Motion  
1978: Ciaran Carson  
1978: Christopher Reid  
1979: Sean O'Brien  
1980: Blake Morrison  
1980: Medbh McGuckian  
1980: Robert Minhinnick  
1981: Robyn Bolam  
1981: Kathleen Jamie  
1981: Alan Jenkins  
1982: James Lasdun  
1984: Carol Ann Duffy  
1984: Jamie McKendrick  
1984: Christopher Meredith  
1984: Iain Bamforth  
1985: Adam Thorpe  
1985: Graham Mort  
1986: Lachlan Mackinnon  
1986: Oliver Reynolds  
1987: Maura Dooley  
1987: Stephen Knight  
1988: Gwyneth Lewis  
1988: Simon Armitage   Zoom!
1988: Robert Crawford  
1988: Michael Symmons Roberts  
1988: Patrick McGuinness  
1989: Paul Henry  
1990: Lavinia Greenlaw  
1990: Don Paterson  
1991: Jackie Kay  
1991: Glyn Maxwell  
1992: Jill Dawson  
1994: Kate Clanchy  
1994: Alice Oswald  
1994: Julia Copus  
1995: Sophie Hannah  
1995: Tobias Hill  
1996: Sinead Morrissey  
1997: Polly Clark  
1998: Esther Morgan  
1999: Owen Sheers  
1999: Matthew Hollis  
2000: Antony Dunn  
2000: Clare Pollard  
2001: Leontia Flynn   These Days
2004: Nick Laird  

Erskine Stewart's Melville Book Award

2005: Julie Bertagna   The Opposite of Chocolate

Esquire Award

1995: Andrew O'Hagan   The Missing   (shortlist)

Esquire/Volvo/Waterstone's Non-Fiction Book Award

1993: Blake Morrison   And When Did You Last See Your Father?

Essex Book Award

2007: Theresa Breslin   Divided City   (shortlist)

Essex Book Awards Best Fiction Prize

2003: Mario Petrucci   The Stamina of Sheep: The Havering Poems

Esther Glen Award (New Zealand)

1978: Ronda Armitage   The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch

Eurocon Merit Award

1976: Brian Aldiss   Billion Year Spree

Europe Theatre Prize

2006: Harold Pinter  

European Poetry Translation Prize

1983: Tony Harrison   The Oresteia
1995: George Szirtes   New Life
1996: David J. Constantine   Selected Poems/Friedrich Hölderlin
2003: David J. Constantine   Lighter than Air: Moral Poems/Hans Magnus Enzenberger

European Prize for Literature (European Association for the Arts)

1995: Edna O'Brien   House of Splendid Isolation

European Prize for Poetry

2006: Paul Muldoon  

European Woman of Achievement Award

2000: Kate Mosse  

Evelyn Encelot European Prize for Women Poets

2003: Menna Elfyn     (shortlisted)

Evening Standard Award

1968: Alan Bennett   Forty Years On
1971: Alan Bennett   Getting On

Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of the Year

1970: Christopher Hampton   The Philanthropist
1973: Alan Ayckbourn   Absurd Person Singular
1974: Tom Stoppard   Travesties
1975: Michael Frayn   Alphabetical Order
1980: Michael Frayn   Make and Break
1982: Michael Frayn   Noises Off
1982: Christopher Hampton   Tales from Hollywood
1985: Alan Ayckbourn   A Chorus Of Disapproval
1987: Caryl Churchill   Serious Money
1987: Caryl Churchill   Serious Money
1989: Alan Ayckbourn   Henceforward ...
1990: Alan Ayckbourn   Man Of The Moment
1991: Steven Berkoff   Kvetch
1992: Jim Cartwright   The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
1995: Patrick Marber   Dealer's Choice
1997: Patrick Marber   Closer

Evening Standard Award for Best Film

1992: Stephen Poliakoff   Close My Eyes

Evening Standard Award for Best First Novel

1972: Jennifer Johnston   The Captains and the Kings

Evening Standard Award for Best Play

1961: Alan Bennett   Beyond The Fringe

Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year

1971: David Storey   Home
1972: Tom Stoppard   Jumpers
1974: Alan Ayckbourn   The Norman Conquests
1977: Alan Ayckbourn   Just Between Ourselves
1978: Tom Stoppard   Night and Day
1982: Tom Stoppard   The Real Thing
1986: Christopher Hampton   Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1987: Alan Ayckbourn   A Small Family Business
1993: Tom Stoppard   Arcadia