Literary Awards

Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year)

2009: Christopher Reid   A Scattering   (shortlist)
2009: Don Paterson   Rain
2009: Peter Porter   Better Than God   (shortlist)

Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem

2004: Daljit Nagra     ('Look We Have Coming to Dover!')

Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem)

1993: Vicki Feaver     ('Judith')
1996: Kathleen Jamie     ('The Graduates')
1997: Lavinia Greenlaw     ('A World Where News Travelled Slowly')
1997: Maura Dooley     (shortlist - 'The Message')
1998: Carol Rumens     (shortlist - 'A Day in the Life of Farmer Dream')
1998: Sheenagh Pugh     ('Envying Owen Beattie')
1999: George Szirtes     (shortlist - 'Backwaters: Norfolk Fields')
1999: Robert Minhinnick     ('Twenty-five Laments for Iraq')
2001: Ruth Padel     (shortlist - 'Rubies and Rattlesnakes')
2001: Ian Duhig     ('The Lammas Hireling')
2002: Medbh McGuckian     ('She is in the Past, She has this Grace')
2002: Carol Rumens     (shortlist)
2002: Ian Duhig     (shortlist - 'Rosary')
2003: Robert Minhinnick     ('The Fox in the National Museum of Wales')
2004: David J. Constantine     (shortlist - 'Trilobite in the Wenlock Shales')
2004: Robert Minhinnick     (shortlist - 'The Castaway')
2005: Sarah Maguire     (shortlist - 'Passages')
2005: Stephen Knight     (shortlist - '99 Poems')
2005: Paul Farley     ('Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second')
2005: Katherine Pierpoint     (shortlist - 'Buffalo Calf')
2006: Sean O'Brien     ('Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright')
2006: Fiona Sampson   Trumpeldor Beach   (shortlist)
2007: David Harsent     (shortlist - 'The Hut in Question')
2007: Alice Oswald     ('Dunt')
2007: Jean Sprackland     (shortlist- 'The Birkdale Nightingale')
2008: Seamus Heaney   Cutaways   (shortlist)
2008: Don Paterson     ('Love Poem for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze)
2009: Robin Robertson     ('At Roane Head')
2009: Paul Farley     (shortlist - 'Moles')
2009: Michael Longley     (shortlist - 'Visiting Stanley Kunitz')
2009: George Szirtes     (shortlist - 'Song')

Forward Poetry Prize (commendation)

1992: Jackie Kay   The Adoption Papers

Forward Poetry Prize (Most Promising Young Poet)

1992: Simon Armitage   Kid

FPA Media Award

2005: William Dalrymple     (best print article)

Francis Williams Award for Illustration

1977: Raymond Briggs   Father Christmas
1982: Raymond Briggs   The Snowman

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

2006: Rose Tremain   The Darkness of Wallis Simpson   (shortlist)

Frank O'Hara Prize (USA)

1968: Charles Tomlinson  

Franz Kafka Award

2006: Harold Pinter  

Frederick Niven Literary Award

1980: Allan Massie   The Last Peacock

Freedom of the City, Mexico City (Mexico)

1999: Salman Rushdie  

Frogmore Poetry prize

1996: Mario Petrucci     ('Light')

Fulbright Professorship

1958: George Steiner  

GAP International Prize for Literature (USA)

1989: Jim Crace   The Gift of Stones

Geoffrey Dearmer Memorial Prize

1997: Paul Farley  
2000: Greta Stoddart     (shortlist)

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

1967: William McIlvanney   Remedy is None
1968: Seamus Heaney  
1969: Piers Paul Read   The Junkers
1972: Tony Harrison   The Loiners
1973: David Storey   Pasmore
1974: John Fuller   Epistles to Several Persons
1975: Hugo Williams   Some Sweet Day
1976: Douglas Dunn   Love or Nothing
1977: David Harsent   Dreams of the Dead
1978: Kit Wright   The Bear Looked Over the Mountain
1979: Timothy Mo   The Monkey King
1980: George Szirtes   The Slant Door
1981: Graham Swift   Shuttlecock
1981: J. M. Coetzee   Waiting for the Barbarians
1982: Tom Paulin   The Strange Museum
1983: Graham Swift   Waterland
1984: James Fenton  
1985: Julian Barnes   Flaubert's Parrot
1988: Michael Hofmann   Acrimony
1991: Will Self   The Quantity Theory of Insanity
1992: Paul Muldoon   Madoc: A Mystery
1994: John Burnside   Feast Days
1995: Livi Michael   Their Angel Reach
1996: Kathleen Jamie   The Queen of Sheba
1997: Don Paterson   God's Gift to Women
2000: Kathleen Jamie   Jizzen
2001: Trezza Azzopardi   The Hiding Place
2002: Greta Stoddart   At Home in the Dark
2002: Glen Duncan   I, Lucifer   (shortlist)
2003: Justin Hill   The Drink and Dream Teahouse
2004: Glyn Maxwell   The Nerve
2007: Alice Oswald   Woods etc.
2009: Nick Laird   On Purpose

George Cushing Prize

2001: George Szirtes  

George Devine Award

1981: Hanif Kureishi   Outskirts
1982: Louise Page   Salonika
1986: Jim Cartwright   Road   (joint winner)

George Orwell Prize

1978: Paul Bailey   The Limitations of Despair   (essay award)
2001: Michael Ignatieff   Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

German Author of the Year

1989: Salman Rushdie   The Satanic Verses

German Children's Book of the Year

2004: Eoin Colfer   Artemis Fowl

Giles Cooper Award

1980: William Trevor   Beyond the Pale   (radio play)
1982: William Trevor   Autumn Sunshine   (radio play)
1982: Harold Pinter   Family Voices
1984: Rose Tremain   Temporary Shelter   (radio play)
1984: Caryl Phillips   The Wasted Years
1989: Jennifer Johnston   O Ananias, Azarias and Misael   (radio play)

Giller Prize (Canada)

1995: Rohinton Mistry   A Fine Balance
1996: Margaret Atwood   Alias Grace
1998: Alice Munro   The Love of a Good Woman