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Prizes, grants and awards

McKitterick Prize (past winners)

For a first novel by an author over the age of 40

2007 Reina James This Time of Dying (Portobello) £4000
2006 Peter Pouncey Rules for Old Men Waiting (Chatto & Windus) £4,000
2005 Lloyd Jones Mr Vogel (Seren) £4,000
2004 Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Jonathan Cape) £4,000
2003 Mary Lawson Crow Lake (Chatto & Windus) £4,000
2002 Manil Suri The Death of Vishnu (Bloomsbury Publishing) £4,000
2001 Giles Waterfield The Long Afternoon (Headline Review) £4,000
2000 Chris Dolan Ascension Day (Headline Review) £4,000
1999 Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts (Flamingo) £4,000
1998 Eli Gottlieb The Boy Who Went Away (Jonathan Cape) £4,000
1997 Patricia Duncker Hallucinating Foucault (Serpent’s Tail) £4,000
1996 Stephen Blanchard Gagarin and I (Vintage) £5,000
1995 Christopher Bigsby Hester (Weidenfeld) £5,000
1994 Helen Dunmore Zennor in Darkness (Viking) £5,000
1993 Andrew Barrow The Tap Dancer (Duckworth) £5,000
1992 Alberto Manguel News from a Foreign Country Came (Harper Collins) £5,000
1991 John Loveday Halo (Harcourt Brace) £5,000
1990 Simon Mawer Chimera (Hamish Hamilton) £5,000