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WH SMITH LITERARY AWARD
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WH SMITH LITERARY AWARD
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Founded in 1959 to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth," the WH Smith Award is for an author whose book "makes, in the opinion of the judges, the most significant contribution to literature." Authors from the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and the Irish Republic are eligible. Judging is done by an independent panel of three judges who call in books from publishers. After they have chosen a shortlist a guest judge joins them for the selection of the winner.
| 2003 | Donna Tartt | The Little Friend |
| 2002 | Ian McEwan | Atonement |
| 2001 | Philip Roth | The Human Stain |
| 2000 | Melvyn Bragg | The Soldier's Return |
| 1999 | Beryl Bainbridge | Master Georgie |
| 1998 | Ted Hughes | Tales from Ovid |
| 1997 | Orlando Figes | A People's Tragedy - The Russian Revolution |
| 1996 | Simon Schama | Landscape and Memory |
| 1995 | Alice Munro | Open Secrets |
| 1994 | Vikram Seth | A Suitable Boy |
| 1993 | Michele Roberts | Daughters of the House |
| 1992 | Thomas Pakenham | The Scramble for Africa |
| 1991 | Derek Walcott | Omeros |
| 1990 | V.S. Pritchett | A Careless Widow an Other Stories |
| 1989 | Christopher Hill | A Turbulent, Seditious and factious People: John Bunyan and His Church |
| 1988 | Robert Hughes | The Fatal Shore |
| 1987 | Elizabeth Jennings | Collected Poems, 1953-1985 |
| 1986 | Doris Lessing | The Good Terrorist |
| 1985 | David Hughes | The Pork Butcher |
| 1984 | Philip Larkin | Required Writing |
| 1983 | A.N. Wilson | Wise Virgin |
| 1982 | George Clare | Last Waltz in Vienna |
| 1981 | Isabel Colegate | The Shooting Party |
| 1980 | Thom Gunn | Selected Poems, 1959-1975 |
| 1979 | Mark Girouard | Life in the English Country House |
| 1978 | Patrick Leigh Fermor | A Time for Gifts |
| 1977 | Ronald Lewin | Slim: The Standardbearer |
| 1976 | Seamus Heaney | North |
| 1975 | Jon Stallworthy | Wilfred Owen |
| 1974 | Anthony Powell | Temporary Kings |
| 1973 | Brian Moore | Catholics |
| 1972 | Kathleen raine | The Lost Country |
| 1971 | Nan Fairbrother | New Lives, New Landscapes |
| 1970 | John Fowles | The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| 1969 | Robert Gittings | John Keats |
| 1968 | V.S. Naipaul | The Mimic Men |
| 1967 | Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| 1966 | R.C. Hutchinson | A Child Possessed |
| 1965 | Leonard Woolf | Beginning Again |
| 1964 | Ernst H. Gombrich | Meditations on a Hobby-Horse |
| 1963 | Gabriel Fielding | The Birthday King |
| 1962 | J.R. Ackerley | We Think the World of You |
| 1961 | Nadine Gordimer | Friday's Footprint |
| 1960 | Laurie Lee | Cider With Rosie |
| 1959 | Patrick White | Voss |
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