1974 Oliver Sacks: Awakenings 1975 David Lodge: Changing Places 1976 Robert Nye: Falstaff 1977 Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia 1978 David Cook: Walter 1979 P. S. Rushforth: Kindergarten 1980 Christopher Reid: Arcadia 1981 Douglas Dunn: St. Kilda's Parliament 1982 Timothy Mo: Sour Sweet 1983 Jonathan Keates: Allegro Postillions 1988 Colin Thubron: Behind the Wall: A Journey through China 1989 Alan Bennett: Talking Heads* 1999 Antony Beevor: Stalingrad 1990 Kit Wright: Short Afternoons 1991 Claire Tomalin: The Invisible Woman 1992 Ferdinand Mount: Of Love and Asthma 1993 Andrew Barrow: The Tap Dancer 1994 Tim Pears: In the Place of Fallen Leaves 1995 James Michie: Collected Poems 1996 Hilary Mantel: An Experiment in Love 1997 John Lanchester: The Debt to Pleasure 1998 Charles Nicholl: Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 2000 Michael Longley: The Weather in Japan 2001 Helen Simpson: Hey Yeah Right Get a Life 2002 Eamon Duffy: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village 2003 William Fiennes: The Snow Geese 2004 Jonathan Bate: John Clare: A Biography 2005 Justin Cartwright: The Promise of Happiness 2006 Alexander Masters: Stuart: A Life Backwards 2007 M. J. Hyland: Carry Me Down 2008 Nicola Barker: Darkmans 2009 Patrick French: The World Is What It Is 2010 Alice Oswald: A Sleepwalk on the Severn 2011 Candia McWilliam: What to Look for in Winter 2012 Ali Smith: There But For The 2013 Jamie McKendrick: Out There 2014 Emily Berry: Dear Boy 2015 Colm Tóibín: Nora Webster 2016 Tessa Hadley: The Past 2017 Graham Swift: Mothering Sunday 2018 Jenny Uglow: Mr Lear 2019 Sue Prideaux: I Am Dynamite! 2020 John McCullough: Reckless Paper Birds 2022 Ian Duhig: New and Selected Poems See also List of British literary awards References External links List of winners English literary awards Awards established in 1919 1919 establishments in England