Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman publisher Faber & Faber. It recognises a single volume of poetry or fiction by a Commonwealth author under 40, and is in alternating years awarded to poetry and fiction.

In its first year, the prize was awarded to Christopher Middleton for his poetry.

Previous winners

 * 1964	Christopher Middleton for Torse 3 Poems 1949-1961 and George MacBeth for The Broken Places: Poems
 * 1965	Frank Tuohy for The Ice Saints (fiction)
 * 1966	Jon Silkin for Nature Within Man (poetry)
 * 1967	William McIlvanney for Remedy is None and John Noone for The Man with the Chocolate Egg (fiction)
 * 1968	Seamus Heaney for Death of a Naturalist (poetry)
 * 1969	Piers Paul Read for The Junkers (fiction)
 * 1970	Geoffrey Hill for King Log (poetry)
 * 1971	J. G. Farrell for Troubles (fiction)
 * 1972	Tony Harrison for The Loiners (poetry)
 * 1973	David Storey for Pasmore (fiction)
 * 1974	John Fuller for Cannibals and Missionaries and Epistles to Several Persons (poetry)
 * 1975	Richard B. Wright for In the Middle of a Life (fiction)
 * 1976	Douglas Dunn for Love or Nothing (poetry)
 * 1977	Carolyn Slaughter for The Story of the Weasel (fiction)
 * 1978	David Harsent for Dreams of the Dead and Kit Wright for The Bear Looked Over the Mountain (poetry)
 * 1979	Timothy Mo for The Monkey King (novel)
 * 1980	Hugo Williams for Love-Life and George Szirtes for The Slant Door (poetry)
 * 1981	J. M. Coetzee for Waiting for the Barbarians (fiction)
 * 1982	Paul Muldoon for Why Brownlee Left and Tom Paulin for The Strange Museum (poetry)
 * 1983	Graham Swift for Shuttlecock (fiction)
 * 1984	James Fenton for In Memory of War: Poems 1968-83
 * 1985	Julian Barnes for Flaubert's Parrot (fiction)
 * 1986	David Scott for A Quiet Gathering (poetry)
 * 1987	Guy Vanderhaeghe for Man Descending (fiction)
 * 1988	Michael Hofmann for Acrimony: Poems
 * 1989	David Profumo for Sea Music (fiction)
 * 1990	Michael Donaghy for Shibboleth (poetry)
 * 1991	Carol Birch for The Fog Line (fiction)
 * 1992	Paul Muldoon for Madoc: A Mystery (poetry)
 * 1993	Will Self for The Quantity Theory of Insanity (fiction)
 * 1994	John Burnside for Feast Days (poetry)
 * 1995	Livi Michael for Their Angel Reach (fiction)
 * 1996	Kathleen Jamie for The Queen of Sheba (poetry)
 * 1997	Emily Perkins for Not Her Real Name (fiction)
 * 1998	Don Paterson for God's Gift to Women (poetry)
 * 1999	Gavin Kramer for Shopping (fiction)
 * 2000	Kathleen Jamie for Jizzen (poetry)
 * 2001	Trezza Azzopardi for The Hiding Place (fiction)
 * 2002	Greta Stoddart for At Home in the Dark (poetry)
 * 2003	Justin Hill for The Drink and Dream Teahouse (fiction)
 * 2004	Glyn Maxwell for The Nerve: Poems
 * 2005	David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas (fiction)
 * 2006	Alice Oswald for Woods Etc. (poetry)
 * 2007  Edward Docx for Self Help (fiction)
 * 2008  Nick Laird for On Purpose (poetry)
 * 2009  David Szalay for London and the South-East (fiction)
 * 2010  Kona Macphee for Perfect Blue (poetry)