Cheltenham Prize for Literature

The Cheltenham Prize is awarded at the English Cheltenham Literature Festival to the author of any book published in the relevant year which "has received less acclaim than it deserved".

Past winners

• 1979: Angela Carter for The Bloody Chamber
• 1980: Thomas Pakenham for The Boer War
• 1981: D. M. Thomas for The White Hotel
• 1982: Simon Gray for Quartermaine's Terms
• 1983: Alasdair Gray for Unlikely Stories, Mostly
• 1984: Beatrix Campbell for Wigan Pier Revisited
• 1985: Frank McLynn for The Jacobite Army of England: 1745, The Final Campaign
• 1986: Frank McGuiness for Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
• 1987: James Kelman for Greyhound for Breakfast
• 1988: Peter Robinson for The Other Life
• 1989: Medbh McGuckian for On Ballycastle Beach
• 1990: Hilary Mantel for Fludd
• 1991: Marius Kociejowski for Coast
• 1993: R. S. Thomas for Mass for Hard Times
• 1994: Lyndall Gordon for Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
• 1995: Kazuo Ishiguro for The Unconsoled

References

• Awards up to 1988: Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd