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Walter Scott Prize

The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is a British literary award founded in 2010.[1] At £25,000, it is one of the largest literary awards in the UK.[2] The award was created by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, who is generally considered the originator of historical fiction with the novel Waverley in 1814.[3]

Eligible books must have been first published in the UK, Ireland or Commonwealth in the preceding year.[1] For the purpose of the award, historical fiction is defined as being that where the main events take place more than 60 years ago, i.e. outside of any mature personal experience of the author.[1][a] The winner is announced each June at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose.[1]

Recipients

Year Author Title Story and setting Result Ref.
2010 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Thomas Cromwell (1490s–1532) Winner [4][5][6]
Adam Thorpe Hodd Robin Hood (early medieval) Shortlist [7][8]
Robert Harris Lustrum Cicero (106–43 BC)
Sarah Dunant Sacred Hearts 16th-century Italian convent
Iain Pears Stone's Fall Early 20th-century mystery/thriller
Simon Mawer The Glass Room 1930s Czech
Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze John Clare and Alfred Tennyson (early 19th century)
2011 Andrea Levy The Long Song 1820s Jamaica Winner [9][10]
Tom McCarthy C Turn of the 20th-century Europe Shortlist [5]
Joseph O'Connor Ghost Light 20th-century England and Ireland
C. J. Sansom Heartstone England during the summer of 1545
David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet late 18th-century Shogun Japan
Andrew Williams To Kill a Tsar St. Petersburg around the turn of the 20th century
2012 Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side 20th-century Ireland and Chicago Winner [11][12]
Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues World War II-era Europe Shortlist [10][13]
Andrew Miller Pure Paris in 1786
Barry Unsworth The Quality of Mercy London of 1767 and a Durham coastal mining village
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers Oregon and California in 1851
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child World War I-era Europe
2013 Tan Twan Eng The Garden of Evening Mists 1940s and '50s Malaya Winner [14][15]
Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies Thomas Cromwell (1532–1536) Shortlist [16]
Rose Tremain Merivel: A Man of His Time 1680s England
Thomas Keneally The Daughters of Mars WWI
Anthony Quinn The Streets 1880s London
Pat Barker Toby's Room WWI
2014 Robert Harris An Officer and a Spy Dreyfus Affair, which took place in France in the late 1890s Winner [17][18]
Andrew Greig Fair Helen 1590s in the Borderland of Scotland and England Shortlist [19][20]
Jim Crace Harvest remote English village following the Enclosure Act in the 18th century
Kate Atkinson Life After Life during the 20th century
Eleanor Catton The Luminaries New Zealand gold rush of the 19th century
Ann Weisgarber The Promise 1900 Galveston hurricane
2015 John Spurling The Ten Thousand Things China in the 14th century Winner [21][22]
Kamila Shamsie A God in Every Stone India during WWI Shortlist [23][24]
Damon Galgut Arctic Summer India in the early 20th century
Adam Foulds In the Wolf's Mouth Italy in World War II
Helen Dunmore The Lie England during WWI
Martin Amis The Zone of Interest Europe during World War II
Hermione Eyre Viper Wine England in the 17th century
2016 Simon Mawer Tightrope France WWII Winner [25][26]
Patrick Gale A Place Called Winter early 20th century Saskatchewan Shortlist [27][28]
Allan Massie End Games in Bordeaux France WWII
Gavin McCrea Mrs Engels 19th century England
Lucy Treloar Salt Creek mid-19th century Australia
William Boyd Sweet Caress 20th century global
2017 Sebastian Barry Days Without End US Civil War Winner [29][30]
Jo Baker A Country Road, a Tree WWII France Shortlist [31][32]
Francis Spufford Golden Hill 18th century New York
Graham Swift Mothering Sunday 1924
Hannah Kent The Good People 19th century Ireland
Rose Tremain The Gustav Sonata Switzerland during WWII
Charlotte Hobson The Vanishing Futurist Russia early Soviet era
2018 Ben Myers The Gallows Pole Yorkshire 18th century Winner [33][34]
Paul Lynch Grace 19th century Ireland Shortlist [35][36]
Jennifer Egan Manhattan Beach WWII New York
Rachel Malik Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves WWII
Jane Harris Sugar Money 18th century Martinique and Grenada
Patrick McGrath The Wardrobe Mistress 1940s London
2019 Robin Robertson The Long Take American, post WWII Winner [37]
Peter Carey A Long Way From Home 1950s Australia Shortlist [38][39]
Cressida Connolly After the Party 1938 England
Andrew Miller Now We Shall Be Entirely Free 1809 Spain
Samantha Harvey The Western Wind 1491
Michael Ondaatje Warlight 1945 London
2020 Christine Dwyer Hickey The Narrow Land 1950s, Cape Cod Winner [40][41][42]
Marguerite Poland A Sin of Omission late 19th century, South Africa and England Shortlist [43][44]
Joseph O'Connor Shadowplay 1878, London
Isabella Hammad The Parisian pre-WWI, Europe, Palestine
Tim Pears The Redeemed WWI, West Country, England
James Meek To Calais, in Ordinary Time 14th century, England
2021 Hilary Mantel The Mirror & the Light Thomas Cromwell (1536–1540) Winner [45][46]
Kate Grenville A Room Made of Leaves early colonial period, Australia Shortlist [47][48]
Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet late 16th century, Stratford-upon-Avon
Pip Williams The Dictionary of Lost Words 1880s–1920s, Oxford
Steven Conte The Tolstoy Estate 1812 and 1941, Russia
2022 James Robertson News of the Dead Fictitious Highland glen through three different eras Winner [49]
Andrew Greig Rose Nicholson Scotland of the 1570s Shortlist [50]
Amanda Smyth Fortune Caribbean oil rush of the 1920s
Colm Tóibín The Magician Twentieth-century Europe, seen though the life of Thomas Mann
2023 Lucy Caldwell These Days Northern Ireland, Belfast Blitz 1940s Winner [51][52]
Adrian Duncan The Geometer Lobochevsky Rural Ireland 1800s Shortlist [53]
Robert Harris Act of Oblivion England 17th century
Elizabeth Lowry The Chosen England, Thomas Hardy 1800s
Fiona McFarlane The Sun Walks Down South Australia 1800s
Simon Mawer Ancestry Crimea and England 1850s
Devika Ponnambalam I Am Not Your Eve Tahiti, Paul Gauguin 1800s
2024 Kevin Jared Hosein Hungry Ghosts Harrowing epic set in 1940s Trinidad Winner [citation needed]
Tom Crewe The New Life Gay community in 1890s London Shortlist [54]
Joseph O'Connor My Father's House Jews and POWs escape from the Gestapo in WWII Rome
Kai Thomas In the Upper Country Underground Railroad refugees resettle in 1800s Ontario, Canada
Rose Tremain Absolutely and Forever Broken relationships in 1960s London and Paris
Tan Twan Eng The House of Doors Murder mystery and end of colonialism in early 20th C Penang, Malaysia

Notes

  1. ^ Scott subtitled his first historical novel “Waverley; or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since.”

References

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  9. ^ Flood, Alison (20 June 2011). "Andrea Levy wins Walter Scott prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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  13. ^ "Awards: Indies Choice; E.B. White; Jackson Poetry; Walter Scott". Shelf Awareness. 6 April 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  14. ^ "Awards: Walter Scott Prize; Amazon Breakthrough Novel". Shelf Awareness. 17 June 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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  17. ^ "Awards: Walter Scott Prize; Commonwealth Short Story". Shelf Awareness. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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  29. ^ "Awards: Walter Scott Historical Fiction; Pritzker Military Writing". Shelf Awareness. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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  31. ^ "Awards: Marfield for Arts Writing; Dylan Thomas; Walter Scott". Shelf Awareness. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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  33. ^ "Awards: Walter Scott; PubWest; Maine Literary; Center for Fiction". Shelf Awareness. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  34. ^ "Benjamin Myers wins Walter Scott Prize 2018". BBC News. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
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  37. ^ "Awards: Walter Scott and RSL Encore Winners". Shelf Awareness. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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  45. ^ "Awards: Walter Scott, Trillium Winners". 2021-06-18. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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  47. ^ "Awards: Walter Scott Shortlist; PEN America Literary". Shelf Awareness. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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  49. ^ "Awards: Walter Scott, Griffin Poetry Winners". Shelf Awareness. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  50. ^ "Awards: Walter Scott Shortlist; RSL Ondaatje Longlist". Shelf Awareness. 12 April 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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  54. ^ "Walter Scott Prize 2024 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 2 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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