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CHILDREN'S FICTION AWARD 1967-2002 |
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Each year the Guardian newspaper of London awards a prize to an outstanding work of fiction (not picture books) for children written by a British or Commonwealth author. The work must be first published in the UK during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented. The winner is chosen by a panel of authors and the review editor for the Guardian's children's book section.
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| 2002 | Sonya Hartnett | Thursday's Child |
| 2001 | Kevin Crossley-Holland | Seeing Stone |
| 2000 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Illustrated Mum |
| 1999 | Susan Price | The Sterkarm Handshake |
| 1998 | Henrietta Branford | Fire, Bed and Bone |
| 1997 | Melvin Burgess | Junk |
| 1996 | Philip Pulman | Northern Lights |
| 1996 | Alison Prince | The Sherwood Hero |
| 1995 | Lesley Howarth | MapHead |
| 1994 | Sylvia Waugh | The Mennyms |
| 1993 | William Mayne | Low Tide |
| 1992 | Racher Anderson | Paper Faces |
| 1992 | Hilary McKay | The Exiles |
| 1991 | Robert Westall | The Kingdom by the Sea |
| 1990 | Anne Fine | Goggle-Eyes |
| 1989 | Geraldine McCaughrean | A Pack of Lies |
| 1988 | Ruth Thomas | The Runaways |
| 1987 | James Aldridge | The True Story of Spit MacPhee |
| 1986 | Ann Pilling | Henry's Leg |
| 1985 | Ted Hughes | What Is the Truth |
| 1984 | Dick King-Smith | The Sheep-Pig |
| 1983 | Anita Desai | Village by the Sea |
| 1982 | Michelle Magorian | Goodnight Mr. Tom |
| 1981 | Pater Carter | The Sentinels |
| 1980 | Ann Schlee | The Vandal |
| 1979 | Andrew Davies | Conrad's War |
| 1978 | Diana Wynne Jones | A Charmed Life |
| 1977 | Peter Dickinson | The Blue Hawk |
| 1976 | Nina Bawden | The Peppermint Pig |
| 1975 | Winifred Cawley | Gran at Colgate |
| 1974 | Barbara Willard | The Iron Lily |
| 1973 | Richard Adams | Watership Down |
| 1972 | Gillian Avery | A Likely Lad |
| 1971 | John Christopher | The Guardians |
| 1970 | K. M. Peyton | Flambards |
| 1969 | Joan Aiken | The Whispering Mountain |
| 1968 | Alan Garner | The Owl Service |
| 1967 | Leon Garfield | Devil-in-a-Fog |
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