The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth

Commonwealth

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 aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. It is the second oldest literary award in the UK.

In June 2011 the award was 'suspended' by Booktrust due to funding problems, there was no award for 2011.

History

The prize was initiated in 1942 by Jane Oliver in memory of her husband John Llewellyn Rhys, a young author who was killed on 5 August 1940 while serving as a bomber

Bomber

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 pilot

Aviator

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 in the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

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.

From 1987 to 2003, the prize was funded by the Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011...

. The newspaper withdrew in 2003, after the 2002 prize was awarded to Mary Laven. Since then, the prize has been sponsored by Booktrust

Booktrust

Booktrust is an independent British charity dedicated to encouraging people of all ages and cultures to engage with books. Established in 1992, it has received UK government funding since 2004, and inspired similar schemes in over 20 countries. In December 2010 it was announced that the government...

, an independent educational charity.

In June 2011 the award was 'suspended' by Booktrust due to funding problems. There was no award for 2011. Booktrust said that it "strongly" intended to bring the award "back with a bang as soon as possible" as it looked for outside funding sources.

As of 2010 the winner receives £5,000, while the runners-up each receive £500.

Winners (1942–1999)

Year	Author	Title	ISBN (or OCLC OCLC OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is "a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs"... )
1942	Michael Richey	Sunk by a Mine
1943	Morwenna Donnelly	Beauty for Ashes
1944	Alun Lewis Alun Lewis Alun Lewis , was a poet of the Anglo-Welsh school, and is regarded by many as Britain's finest Second World War poet.- Education :...	The Last Inspection
1945	James Aldridge James Aldridge Harold Edward James Aldridge was a multi-award–winning Australian author and journalist whose World War II despatches were published worldwide and formed the basis of several of his novels, including the prize-winning The Sea Eagle about Australian troops in Crete.Aldridge was born in White Hills,...	The Sea Eagle The Sea Eagle The Sea Eagle is a 1946 novel by Australian war correspondent and novelist James Aldridge. Set in Axis-occupied Greece after the Nazi invasion during World War II, it follows the attempts of two Australian soldiers to make passage to Cairo with the help of Greek partisans...
1946	Oriel Malet Oriel Malet Lady Auriel Rosemary Malet Vaughan is an author of literary fiction and biographies who wrote under the name of Oriel Malet. Her parents were Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne and Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia de Bittencourt...	My Bird Sings
1947	Anne-Marie Walters Anne-Marie Walters Anne-Marie Walters MBE was a WAAF officer recruited into the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. Her code name was Colette....	Moondrop to Gascony
1948	Richard Mason	The Wind Cannot Read The Wind Cannot Read The Wind Cannot Read is a 1958 British drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis and John Fraser...
1949	Emma Smith Emma Smith (author) -Early life and fame:Emma Smith was born as Elspeth Hallsmith in Cornwall in 1923. She was educated privately up to the age of 16, when she decided to take up a job at the War Office. During the Second World War, she volunteered to work on the canals as a boatwoman...	Maiden's Trip
1950	Kenneth Allsop Kenneth Allsop Kenneth Allsop was a British broadcaster, author and naturalist. He was a regular reporter on the BBC current affairs programme "Tonight" during the 1960s. He also was Rector of Edinburgh University and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize...	Adventure Lit Their Star
1951	Elizabeth Jane Howard Elizabeth Jane Howard Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE is an English novelist. She was previously an actress and a model.In 1951 she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit...	The Beautiful Visit
1952	no award
1953	Rachel Trickett Rachel Trickett Rachel Trickett was an English novelist, non‑fiction writer, literary scholar, and a prominent British academic; she served as Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford for nearly twenty years, between 1973 and 1991....	The Return Home
1954	Tom Stacey Tom Stacey Tom Stacey is a British novelist, publisher, man of letters , traveller/kingmaker, and penologist.-Early life:...	The Hostile Sun
1955	John Wiles John Wiles John Wiles was a television writer and producer, now best known for being the second producer of the popular science fiction serial Doctor Who, succeeding Verity Lambert...	The Moon to Play With
1956	John Hearne John Hearne John Hearne may be:* J. T. Hearne , British cricket bowler* J. W. Hearne , British cricket all-rounder* John Edgar Colwell Hearne , Jamaican-born Canadian writer & educator...	Voices Under the Window
1957	Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond, born 19 May 1934, is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist....	The Room on the Roof
1958	V. S. Naipaul V. S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC is a Nobel prize-winning Indo-Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism...	The Mystic Masseur The Mystic Masseur (novel) The Mystic Masseur is a comic novel by V. S. Naipaul first published in 1957. It is set in colonial Trinidad.-Plot:The novel is about a frustrated writer of Indian descent who rises from an impoverished background to become a successful politician on the back of his dubious talent as a 'mystic'...
1959	Dan Jacobson Dan Jacobson Dan Jacobson is a novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist. He has lived in Great Britain for most of his adult life, and for many years held a professorship in the English Department at University College London...	A Long Way from London
1960	David Caute David Caute John David Caute is a British author, novelist, playwright, historian and journalist.Caute was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington, Wadham College, Oxford and St Antony's College, Oxford. A Henry Fellow at Harvard, he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1959, but resigned in...	At Fever Pitch
1961	David Storey David Storey David Rhames Storey is an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player....	Flight Into Camden Flight into Camden Flight into Camden is a novel by British author and playwright David Storey. Written in 1961, it won the 1963 Somerset Maugham Prize for fiction....
1962	Robert Rhodes James Robert Rhodes James Sir Robert Vidal Rhodes James was a British historian and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was born in India and began his education in private schools there, returning to England to attend Sedbergh School and then Worcester College, Oxford.He wrote his first book, a much-acclaimed biography... Edward Lucie-Smith Edward Lucie-Smith John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues.-Biography:Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946...	An Introduction to the House of Commons A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems
1963	Peter Marshall Peter Marshall Peter Marshall may refer to:* Peter Marshall , British author whose works include Demanding The Impossible: A History of Anarchism and Europe's Lost Civilization...	Two Lives Two Lives Vikram Seth’s second non-fiction work, Two Lives, is the story of a century and of a love affair across an ethnic divide. As the name suggests, it is a story of two extraordinary lives, that of his great uncle, Shanti Behari Seth, and of his German Jewish great aunt, Hennerle Gerda Caro.Two Lives...
1964	Nell Dunn Nell Dunn -Early years:Dunn was born in London and educated at a convent, which she left at the age of fourteen. Although she came from an upper class background, in 1959 she moved to Battersea and made friends in the neighbourhood and worked for a time in a sweets factory...	Up the Junction Up the Junction Up the Junction is a 1963 novel by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea near Clapham Junction.The book uses colloquial speech, and its portrayal of petty thieving, sexual encounters, births, deaths and back-street abortion provided a view of life that was...
1965	Julian Mitchell Julian Mitchell Julian Mitchell FRSL , full name Charles Julian Humphrey Mitchell, is an English playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist...	The White Father
1966	Margaret Drabble	The Millstone The Millstone (novel) The Millstone is a novel by Margaret Drabble, first published in 1965.It is about an unmarried, young academic who becomes pregnant after a one-night stand and, against all odds, decides to give birth to her child and raise it herself.-Plot summary:...
1967	Anthony Masters Anthony Masters Anthony Masters was a British production designer and set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey....	The Seahorse
1968	Angela Carter Angela Carter Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works...	The Magic Toyshop The Magic Toyshop The Magic Toyshop is a British novel by Angela Carter. It follows the development of the heroine, Melanie, as she becomes aware of herself, her environment, and her own sexuality.- Plot Summary :...
1969	Melvyn Bragg Melvyn Bragg Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg FRSL FRTS FBA, FRS FRSA is an English broadcaster and author best known for his work with the BBC and for presenting the The South Bank Show...	Without a City Wall
1970	Angus Calder Angus Calder Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.-Education:...	The People's War
1971	Shiva Naipaul Shiva Naipaul Shiva Naipaul , born Shivadhar Srivinasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was a Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist.Shiva Naipaul was the younger brother of novelist V. S. Naipaul...	Fireflies
1972	Susan Hill Susan Hill Susan Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971....	The Albatross The Albatross The Albatross is a novella written by Susan Hill first appearing in the collection The Albatross and Other Stories published by Hamish Hamilton in 1971. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1972.. It appeared as a standalone book published by Penguin Books in 2000....
1973	Peter Smalley Peter Smalley Peter Smalley is an Australian born author, screenwriter and broadcaster who lives in the United Kingdom, who has written a series of naval thrillers featuring Captain William Rennie. His first Rennie adventure HMS Expedient was published by Century, an imprint of Random House in 2005...	A Warm Gun
1974	Hugh Fleetwood	The Girl Who Passed for Normal
1975	David Hare David Hare (dramatist) Sir David Hare is an English playwright and theatre and film director.-Early life:Hare was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, the son of Agnes and Clifford Hare, a sailor. He was educated at Lancing, an independent school in West Sussex, and at Jesus College, Cambridge... Tim Jeal Tim Jeal Tim Jeal is a British novelist, and biographer of notable Victorian men. His publications include biographies of Baden-Powell, Livingstone and his most recent, Henry Morton Stanley . In 2004 his memoir Swimming with my Father was acclaimed and was shortlisted for the J.R...	Knuckle Cushing's Crusade
1976	no award
1977	Richard Cork Richard Cork Dr Richard Cork is a British art historian, editor, critic, broadcaster and exhibition curator. He has been an art critic for the Evening Standard, The Listener, The Times and the New Statesman. Cork was also editor for Studio International. He is a past Turner Prize judge.-Life and work:Richard...	Vorticism & Abstract Art in the First Machine Age
1978	A. N. Wilson A. N. Wilson Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views...	The Sweets of Pimlico
1979	Peter Boardman Peter Boardman Peter Boardman was a British climber, Everest summiteer, and author of several mountaineering books.-Early life:...	The Shining Mountain
1980	Desmond Hogan Desmond Hogan Desmond Hogan is an Irish writer.Hogan was born in Ballinasloe in east County Galway, Ireland. His father was a draper. Educated locally at St. Grellan’s Boys’ National School and St. Josephs’s College, Garbally Park...	The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea
1981	A. N. Wilson A. N. Wilson Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views...	The Laird of Abbotsford
1982	William Boyd William Boyd (writer) William Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa...	An Ice-Cream War An Ice-Cream War An Ice-Cream War is a darkly comic war novel by Scottish author William Boyd, which was nominated for a Booker Prize in the year of its publication.- Synopsis :...
1983	Lisa St Aubin de Teran Lisa St Aubin de Terán Lisa St Aubin de Terán is an award-winning English novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist.Lisa St Aubin de Terán was born in 1953 and brought up in Clapham in South London. She attended the James Allen's Girls' School...	The Slow Train to Milan
Andrew Motion Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...	Dangerous Play
John Milne John Milne For other uses, see John Milne .John Milne was the British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.-Biography:...	Out of the Blue Out of the Blue Out of the Blue may refer to:* Out of the blue , a phrase describing an unexpected event- Film :* Out of the Blue , a British musical directed by and starring Gene Gerrard...
1986	Tim Parks Tim Parks Tim Parks is a British novelist, translator and author.-Life:Tim Parks was born in Manchester in 1954, the son of a clergyman. He grew up in Finchley , London and was educated at Cambridge University and Harvard. He has lived near Verona in Italy since 1981...	Loving Roger
1987	Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson OBE is a British novelist.-Early years:Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted on 21 January 1960. She was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, by Constance and John William Winterson...	The Passion
1988	Matthew Yorke Matthew Yorke Matthew Yorke is a British novelist and editor. His most recent work was 2005's critically acclaimed Chancing It - a short novel for young adults...	The March Fence
1989	Claire Harman	Sylvia Townsend Warner
1990	Ray Monk Ray Monk Ray Monk is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he has taught since 1992.He won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1991 Duff Cooper Prize for Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. His interests lie in the philosophy of mathematics, the history of...	Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
1991	A. L. Kennedy A. L. Kennedy Alison Louise Kennedy is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is known for a characteristically dark tone, a blending of realism and fantasy, and for her serious approach to her work...	Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains
1992	Matthew Kneale Matthew Kneale Matthew Kneale is a British writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He went to school at Latymer Upper School and then studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards...	Sweet Thames
1993	Jason Goodwin Jason Goodwin Jason Goodwin is a British writer and historian. He studied Byzantine history at Cambridge University. Following the success of A Time For Tea: Travels in China and India in Search of Tea, he walked from Poland to Istanbul, Turkey...	On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul
1994	Jonathan Coe Jonathan Coe Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name...	What a Carve Up!
1995	Melanie McGrath	Motel Nirvana
1996	Nicola Barker Nicola Barker Nicola Barker is an English novelist and short story writer.Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings. Wide Open and Behindlings are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island...	Heading Inland
1997	Phil Whitaker	Eclipse of the Sun
1998	Peter Ho Davies Peter Ho Davies Peter Ho Davies is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.-Biography:Born and raised in Coventry, Davies studied physics at Manchester University then English at Cambridge University....	The Ugliest House in the World	ISBN 978-0-395-78629-1
1999	David Mitchell David Mitchell (author) David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written five novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.- Biography :...	Ghostwritten Ghostwritten Ghostwritten is the first novel published by the author David Mitchell. Published in 1999, it won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was widely acclaimed. The story takes place mainly around East Asia, but also moves through Russia, Britain, the USA and Ireland...	ISBN 978-0-340-73974-7

Winners and short lists (since 2000)

Year	Author	Title	ISBN)	Short list
2000	Edward Platt	Leadville		Julia Leigh Julia Leigh Julia Leigh is an Australian novelist, film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Born in 1970 in Sydney, Australia, Leigh is the eldest of three daughters of a doctor and maths teacher. She initially studied law but shifted to writing. For a time she worked at the Australian Society of Authors... , The Hunter Roddy Lumsden Roddy Lumsden Roddy Lumsden is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other... , The Book of Love Ben Rice Ben Rice Ben Rice , is a prize-winning British author.Rice was born in Tiverton, Devon, educated at Blundell's School and read English literature at Newcastle University and then Wadham College, Oxford, before studying Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.His novel Pobby and Dingan was awarded... , Pobby & Dingan Zadie Smith Zadie Smith Zadie Smith is a British novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors... , White Teeth White Teeth White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends—the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones, and their families in London... Cole Moreton, Hungry for Home Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland
2001	Susanna Jones	The Earthquake Bird
2002	Mary Laven*	Virgins of Venice*
2003	Charlotte Mendelson Charlotte Mendelson -Biography:Her maternal grandparents were, in her words, "Hungarian-speaking-Czech, Ruthenian for about 10 minutes, Carpathian mountain-y, impossible to describe", who left Prague in 1939.She was born in 1972 in west London, in a flat on the Queensway...	Daughters of Jerusalem
2004	Jonathan Trigell	Boy A Boy A Boy A is the title of a 2004 novel by British writer Jonathan Trigell.-Premise:The book is the story of a child criminal released into society as an adult, taking its title from the court practice of concealing the identity of child defendants....		Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer.Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life and education:... , Purple Hibiscus Purple Hibiscus Purple Hibiscus is the first novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was first published by Algonquin Books in 2003. The novel is part of the English Leaving Certificate course in Ireland, the AQA GCSE Higher English and English Literature course, the Advanced Placement course in... Rory Stewart Rory Stewart Roderick 'Rory' James Nugent Stewart OBE FRSL MP DUniv is a British academic, author, and Conservative politician. Since May 2010, he has been the Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border, in the county of Cumbria, North West England.- Overview :Stewart was a senior coalition official in a... , The Places in Between The Places in Between The Places in Between is a travel narrative by Scottish author Rory Stewart about his solo walk across north-central Afghanistan in 2002. Stewart started in Herat and ended in Kabul following the Hari River from west to east. Along the way he travels through some of the most rugged, isolated and... Neil Bennun, The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People Colin McAdam, Some Great Thing Anthony Cartwright, The Afterglow
2005	Uzodinma Iweala Uzodinma Iweala Dr. Uzodinma Iweala is an author and physician who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country...	Beasts of No Nation Beasts of No Nation Beasts of No Nation is a 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala.The novel follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in an unnamed West African country...		Rana Dasgupta Rana Dasgupta Rana Dasgupta is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison... , Tokyo Cancelled Peter Hobbs Peter Hobbs Peter Hobbs is a British novelist.He grew up in Cornwall and North Yorkshire and was educated at New College, Oxford. He began writing during a prolonged illness that cut short a potential diplomatic career.... , The Short Day Dying Sinéad Morrissey Sinead Morrissey Sinéad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Life:Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1990... , The State of the Prisons Rebecca Ray, Newfoundland Rachel Zadok Rachel Zadok Rachel Zadok is a writer and a Whitbread First Novel Award nominee . She is a graduate of the Certificate in Novel Writing course, run by the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning at City University, London. Zadok was born in South Africa in 1972 to a South African mother and an Israeli... , Gem Squash Tokoloshe
2006/7	Sarah Hall Sarah Hall (writer) Sarah Hall is an English novelist, and poet. Her critically acclaimed second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was nominated for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and achieved considerable international commercial success...	The Carhullan Army		Ceridwen Dovey Ceridwen Dovey Ceridwen Dovey is a South African and Australian social anthropologist and author.-Biography:Dovey was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and grew up between South Africa and Australia. Her parents derived her unusual name from one of the protagonists in Richard Llewellyn's 1939 Welsh novel,... , Blood Kin Joanna Kavenna Joanna Kavenna -Biography:Kavenna spent her childhood in Suffolk and the Midlands as well as various other parts of Britain. She has also lived in the United States, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. These travels led to her first book, The Ice Museum, which was published in 2005... , Inglorious Robert Macfarlane Robert Macfarlane Robert Macfarlane, , is a British travel writer and literary critic. Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.-Books:Macfarlane's first... , The Wild Places Gwendoline Riley Gwendoline Riley Gwendoline Riley is an English writer, born in 1979. Born in London, she attended Manchester Metropolitan University.Her first book, Cold Water, was named one of the five outstanding debut novels of 2002 by The Guardian 'Weekend' magazine and also won a Betty Trask Award. Sick Notes followed in... , Joshua Spassky Rory Stewart Rory Stewart Roderick 'Rory' James Nugent Stewart OBE FRSL MP DUniv is a British academic, author, and Conservative politician. Since May 2010, he has been the Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border, in the county of Cumbria, North West England.- Overview :Stewart was a senior coalition official in a... , Occupational Hazards
2008	Henry Hitchings Henry Hitchings Henry Hitchings is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history...	The Secret Life of Words		Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.-Early life and education:... , The White Tiger The White Tiger The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the Man Booker Prize in the same year. The novel provides a darkly comical view of modern day life in India through the narration of its protagonist Balram Halwai... Adam Foulds Adam Foulds Adam Foulds is a British novelist and poet.-Biography:Foulds was educated at Bancroft's School, read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford under Craig Raine, and graduated with an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2001. Foulds published The Truth About These Strange... , The Broken Word James Palmer James Palmer James Palmer may refer to:*Herbert James Palmer , of Prince Edward Island, Canada*Sir James Frederick Palmer , of Victoria, Australia*James Palmer, director of the Conference on World Affairs... , The Bloody White Baron Ross Raisin Ross Raisin Ross Raisin is a British novelist. He was born in Keighley in Yorkshire, and after attending Bradford Grammar School he studied English at King's College London, which was followed by a period as a trainee wine bar manager and a postgraduate degree in creative writing at Goldsmith's... , God's Own Country Brian Schofield Brian Schofield Brian Schofield is a British travel writer. His work has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, GQ, Arena, Condé Nast Traveller and the New Statesman. In 2003, he won the best British Travel Writer covering North America... , Selling Your Father's Bones
2009	Evie Wyld Evie Wyld Evie Wyld is the author of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winning novel After the Fire, A Still Small Voice. In 2010 she was listed by The Daily Telegraph as one of the twenty best British authors under the age of 40....	After the Fire, A Still Small Voice After the Fire, A Still Small Voice After the Fire, A Still Small Voice is the debut novel by author Evie Wyld published in August 2009 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Pantheon Books in the US. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award. and was also shortlisted for both the Orange Award for New Writers and...		Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.-Early life and education:... , Between the Assassinations Between the Assassinations Between the Assassinations is the second book published by Aravind Adiga though it was written before his first book The White Tiger. The title refers to the period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and her son, Rajiv Gandhi, in 1991... Emma Jones Emma Jones (poet) Emma Jones is an Australian poet. Her first poetry collection, The Striped World, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009.Jones was raised in Concord, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Her father was Australian; her British mother had emigrated to Australia... , The Striped World James Maskalyk, Six Months in Sudan Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer.Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life and education:... , The Thing Around Your Neck The Thing Around Your Neck The Thing Around Your Neck, is a short story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it was first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US. It received many positive reviews including:... Tristram Stuart Tristram Stuart Tristram Stuart is an English author and historian.Stuart read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1999 and winning the Betha Wolferstan Rylands prize and the Graham Storey prize; his directors of studies were Peter Holland and John Lennard... , Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
2010	Amy Sackville Amy Sackville Amy Sackville is a British writer whose debut novel The Still Point was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.Sackville studied English and theatre studies at Leeds University, followed by an MA at Oxford's Exeter College before taking a job in the publishing industry. She also studied...	The Still Point The Still Point The Still Point is a 2010 novel by British author Amy Sackville. The book was Sackville's debut novel, and was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize...		Kei Miller Kei Miller Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet, fiction writer, anthologist and occasional journalist.- Biography :Miller was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He read English at the University of the West Indies, but dropped out short of graduation. However, while studying there, he befriended Mervyn Morris,... , A Light Song of Light Nadifa Mohamed Nadifa Mohamed Nadifa Mohamed is an award-winning Somali-British novelist.-Personal life:Nadifa was born in Hargeisa, Somalia in 1981. In 1986, she moved with her family to London... , Black Mamba Boy Black Mamba Boy Black Mamba Boy is a 2009 novel by the Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed.-Overview:Black Mamba Boy is a semi-autobiographical account of Nadifa's father's life in Yemen in the 1930s and 40s, during the colonial period... Daniel Swift, Bomber County Susan Fletcher, Corrag Cordelia Fine Cordelia Fine Cordelia Fine is an Australian academic psychologist and writer. She is the author of two books on neuroscience, several book chapters and numerous academic publications... , Delusions of Gender Delusions of Gender Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference is a book by Cordelia Fine published in 2010 which criticizes current evidence for innate biological differences between men and women's minds as being faulty and exaggerated, and argues that cultural and societal...

*Note: The 2002 prize was initially awarded to Hari Kunzru for his book The Impressionist on 20 November 2003, but the author decided to decline the award due to its sponsorship by The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011...

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See also

• List of British literary awards
• List of literary awards
• List of years in literature

External links

• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, official site at Booktrust
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