| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 1998 |
|
Jackie Kay |
Trumpet |
| 1997 |
|
Anne Michaels |
Fugitive Pieces |
| 1996 |
|
Seamus Deane |
Reading in the Dark |
| 1995 |
|
James Buchan |
Heart's Journey in Winter |
| 1994 |
|
Candia McWilliam |
Debatable land |
| 1993 |
|
Pat Barker |
The Eye in the Door |
| 1992 |
|
Alasdair Gray |
Poor Things |
| 1991 |
|
Alan Judd |
Devil's Own Work |
| 1990 |
|
Pauline Melville |
Shape-shifter |
| 1989 |
|
Carol Lake |
Rosehill |
| 1988 |
|
Lucy Ellmann |
Sweet desserts |
| 1987 |
|
Peter Benson |
The Levels |
| 1986 |
|
Jim Crace |
Continent |
| 1985 |
|
Peter Ackroyd |
Hawksmoor |
| 1984 |
|
J. G. Ballard |
Empire of the Sun |
| 1983 |
|
Graham Swift |
Waterland |
| 1982 |
|
Glyn Hughes |
Where I used to play on the green |
| 1981 |
|
John Banville |
Kepler |
| 1980 |
|
J. L. Carr |
A Month in the Country |
| 1979 |
|
Dambudzo Marechera |
The House of Hunger, Night in Tunisia, and other stories |
|
Neil Jordan |
The House of Hunger, Night in Tunisia, and other stories |
| 1978 |
|
Roy Heath |
The Murderer |
| 1977 |
|
Michael Moorcock |
The Condition of Muzak |
| 1976 |
|
Robert Nye |
Falstaff |
| 1975 |
|
Sylvia Clayton |
Friends and Romans |
| 1974 |
|
Beryl Bainbridge |
The Bottle Factory Outing |
| 1973 |
|
Peter Redgrove |
In the Country of the Skin |
| 1972 |
|
John Berger |
G. |
| 1971 |
|
Thomas Kilroy |
The Big Chapel |
| 1970 |
|
Margaret Blount |
When Did You Last See your Father? |
| 1969 |
|
Maurice Leitch |
Poor Lazarus |
| 1968 |
|
P. J. Kavanagh |
A Song and Dance |
| 1967 |
|
Eva Figes |
Winter journey |
| 1966 |
|
Archie Hind |
The dear green place |
| 1965 |
|
Clive Barry |
Crumb Borne |
