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FOR FIRST NOVEL 1981-2003 |
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FOR FIRST NOVEL 1981-2003 |
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DBC PIERRE
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The Whitbread Book Awards, established in 1971, aim to celebrate and promote the best of British writing. The winners of the Awards for Poetry, Biography, Novel and First Novel are selected in each case by a panel of three judges. The Award for First Novel was initiated in 1981.
| 2003 | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little |
| 2002 | Norman Lebrecht | The Song of Names |
| 2001 | Sid Smith | Something Like a House |
| 2000 | Zadie Smith | White Teeth |
| 1999 | Tim Lott | White City Blue |
| 1998 | Giles Foden | The Last King of Scotland |
| 1997 | Pauline Melville | The Ventriloquist's Tale |
| 1996 | John Lanchester | A Debt to Pleasure |
| 1995 | Kate Atkinson | Behind the Scenes at the Museum |
| 1994 | Fred A'Aguiar | The Longest memory |
| 1993 | Rachel Cusk | Saving Agnes |
| 1992 | Jeff Torrington | Swing Hammer Swing! |
| 1991 | Gordon Burn | Alma Cogan |
| 1990 | Hanif Kureishi | The Buddah of Suburbia |
| 1989 | James Hamilton-Paterson | Gerontius |
| 1988 | Paul Sayer | The Comfort of Madness |
| 1987 | Francis Wyndham | The Other Garden |
| 1986 | Jim Crace | Continent |
| 1985 | Jeanette Winterson | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| 1984 | James Buchan | A Parish of Rich Women |
| 1983 | John Fuller | Flying to Nowhere |
| 1982 | Bruce Chatwin | On the Black Hill |
| 1981 | William Boyd | A Good Man in Africa |
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