Awards & Winners

Guardian First Book Award

Guardian First Book Award

Guardian First Book Award is a literary award by The Guardian newspaper that annually recognises one book by a new writer. It was established in 1999, replacing the Guardian Fiction Award or Guardian Fiction Prize that the newspaper had sponsored from 1965.

Check all the winners of Guardian First Book Award presented under Guardian First Book Award since 1999 .


Donal Ryan

Honored for : The Spinning Heart

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names
Shereen El Feki Sex and the Citadel
Hannah Kent Burial Rites
Lottie Moggach Kiss Me First
Donal Ryan The Spinning Heart

Kevin Powers

Honored for : The Yellow Birds

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds
Kerry Hudson Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
Chad Harbach The Art of Fielding
Lindsey Hilsum Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution
Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Honored for : The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English
Juan Pablo Villalobos Down the Rabbit Hole
Mirza Waheed The Collaborator
Amy Waldman The Submission

Alexandra Harris

Honored for : Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Alexandra Harris Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Nadifa Mohamed Black Mamba Boy
Ned Beauman Boxer, Beetle
Maile Chapman Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto
Kathryn Schulz Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Petina Gappah

Honored for : An Elegy for Easterly

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Petina Gappah An Elegy for Easterly
Samantha Harvey The Wilderness
Eleanor Catton The Rehearsal
Reif Larsen The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Michael Peel A Swamp Full of Dollars

Alex Ross

Honored for : The Rest Is Noise

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mohammed Hanif A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Ross Raisin God\u2019s Own Country
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole
Owen Matthews Stalin's Children
Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise

Dinaw Mengestu

Honored for : Children of the Revolution

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Tahmima Anam A Golden Age
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Rosemary Hill God's architect
Catherine O'Flynn What Was Lost
Dinaw Mengestu Children of the Revolution

Yiyun Li

Honored for : A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Yiyun Li A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Lorraine Adams Harbor
Clare Allan Poppy Shakespeare
Hisham Matar In the Country of Men
Carrie Tiffany Everyman's rules for scientific living

Alexander Masters

Honored for : Stuart: A Life Backwards

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Reza Aslan No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Richard Benson The Farm
Suketu Mehta Maximum City
Rattawut Lapcharoensap Sightseeing
Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards

Armand Marie Leroi

Honored for : Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Matthew Hollis Ground water
David Bezmozgis Natasha and Other Stories
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Rory Stewart The Places in Between
Armand Marie Leroi Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

Robert Macfarlane

Honored for : Mountains of the Mind

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Monica Ali Brick Lane
D. B. C. Pierre Vernon God Little
Paul Broks Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
Anna Funder Stasiland
Robert Macfarlane Mountains of the Mind

Jonathan Safran Foer

Honored for : Everything is Illuminated

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
Alexandra Fuller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Hari Kunzru The Impressionist
Oliver Morton Mapping Mars
Sandra Newman The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done

Chris Ware

Honored for : Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Miranda Carter Anthony Blunt: His Lives
David Edmonds Wittgenstein's Poker
John Eidinow Wittgenstein's Poker
Glen David Gold Carter Beats the Devil
Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room
Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Zadie Smith

Honored for : White Teeth

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mark Z. Danielewski House of Leaves
Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Naomi Klein No Logo
Andrew X. Pham Catfish and mandala
Zadie Smith White Teeth

Philip Gourevitch

Honored for : We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Daren King Boxy an Star
David Mitchell Ghostwritten
Raj Kamal Jha The blue bedspread
Gary Younge No place like home
Bella Bathurst The Lighthouse Stevensons