The WH Smith Literary Award was an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. Its 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 award's final year. The "W H Smith Illustration Award" ran from 1987 to 1994. The "W H Smith Mind-Boggling Book Award" for children's literature ran from 1993 to 1996. W H Smith currently sponsors the National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year (the "British Children's Book Award" through 2009). Winners 1959 Patrick White, Voss 1960 Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie 1961 Nadine Gordimer, Friday's Footprint 1962 J. R. Ackerley, We Think the World of You 1963 Gabriel Fielding, The Birthday King 1964 Ernst H. Gombrich, Meditations on a Hobby-Horse 1965 Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again 1966 R. C. Hutchinson, A Child Possessed 1967 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea 1968 V. S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men 1969 Robert Gittings, John Keats 1970 John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman 1971 Nan Fairbrother, New Lives, New Landscapes 1972 Kathleen Raine, The Lost Country 1973 Brian Moore, Catholics 1974 Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings 1975 Jon Stallworthy, Wilfred Owen 1976 Seamus Heaney, North 1977 Ronald Lewin, Slim: The Standardbearer 1978 Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts 1979 Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House 1980 Thom Gunn, Selected Poems 1950–1975 1981 Isabel Colegate, The Shooting Party 1982 George Clare, Last Waltz in Vienna 1983 A. N. Wilson, Wise Virgin 1984 Philip Larkin, Required Writing 1985 David Hughes, The Pork Butcher 1986 Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist 1987 Elizabeth Jennings, Collected Poems 1953–1985 1988 Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore 1989 Christopher Hill, A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church 1990 V. S. Pritchett, A Careless Widow and Other Stories 1991 Derek Walcott, Omeros 1992 Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa 1993 Michèle Roberts, Daughters of the House 1994 Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy 1995 Alice Munro, Open Secrets 1996 Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory 1997 Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution – 1891–1924 1998 Ted Hughes, Tales From Ovid 1999 Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie 2000 Melvyn