WH Smith Literary Award

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The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the mostrar más British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winner (47), Shortlist (2)
Categorias:
Years:
Todos, 2005 (1), 2004 (2), 2003 (1), 2002 (2), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1), 1962 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (1), 1959 (1)

Winner 47

ObraAño
La Conjura Contra América por Philip Roth2005
The Time of Our Singing por Richard Powers2004
Un juego de niños por Donna Tartt2003
Expiación por Ian McEwan2002
La mancha humana por Philip Roth2001
The Soldier's Return por Melvyn Bragg2000
Master Georgie por Beryl Bainbridge1999
Tales from Ovid por Ted Hughes1998
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 por Orlando Figes1997
Landscape and Memory por Simon Schama1996
Secretos a voces por Alice Munro1995
Un buen partido por Vikram Seth1994
Daughters of the House por Michèle Roberts1993
The Scramble for Africa: 1876–1912 por Thomas Pakenham1992
Omeros por Derek Walcott1991
A Careless Widow and Other Stories por V. S. Pritchett1990
A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88 por Christopher Hill1989
La Costa fatídica por Robert Hughes1988
Collected Poems: 1953-1985 por Elizabeth Jennings1987
Buena Terrorista, La por Doris Lessing1986
The Pork Butcher por David Hughes1985
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-82 por Philip Larkin1984
Wise Virgin por A. N. Wilson1983
Last waltz in Vienna por George Clare1982
The Shooting Party por Isabel Colegate1981
Selected Poems, 1950–1975 por Thom Gunn1980
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History por Mark Girouard1979
El Tiempo de los regalos : de pie hacia Constantinopla : desde Holanda hasta el curso medio del Danubio por Patrick Leigh Fermor1978
Slim: The Standardbearer : A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim (Wordsworth Military Library) por Ronald Lewin1977
Norte por Seamus Heaney1976
Wilfred Owen por Jon Stallworthy1975
Temporary Kings por Anthony Powell1974
Catholics por Brian Moore1973
The lost country por Kathleen Raine1972
New lives, new landscapes por Nan Fairbrother1971
La mujer del teniente francés por John Fowles1970
John Keats por Robert Gittings1968
Los simuladores por V. S. Naipaul1968
Ancho Mar de los Sargazos por Jean Rhys1967
A Child Possessed por R. C. Hutchinson1966
Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918 por Leonard Woolf1965
Meditaciones sobre un caballo de juguete por E. H. Gombrich1964
The Birthday King por Gabriel Fielding1963
We Think The World of You por J. R. Ackerley1962
Friday's Footprint and Other Stories por Nadine Gordimer1961
Sidra con Rosie por Laurie Lee1960
Voss por Patrick White1959

Shortlist 2

ObraCategoríaAño
Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix por J. K. Rowling2004
El asombroso Mauricio y sus roedores sabios por Terry PratchettChildren's Literature2002

Descripciones

The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. It founding aim was stated to be to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth"; originally open to all residents of the UK, the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland, it latterly admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors. The final three winners were Americans (Philip Roth, Donna Tartt and Richard Powers), and 2005 was the awards final year. (English, Escritos por miembros)
discontinued in 2005 (Russian, Escritos por miembros)

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