Thursday, September 26, 2024

Walter Scott Prize: historical fiction


The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is a British literary award created in 2010. Eligible books must have been first published in the United Kingdom, Ireland or Commonwealth countries in the preceding year. The award defines historical fiction as fiction in which the main events take place more than 60 years ago.

2024: Hungry Ghosts, by Kevin Jared Hosein

2023: These Days, by Lucy Caldwell

2022: News of the Dead, by James Robertson

2021: The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel

2020: The Narrow Land, by Christine Dwyer Hickey

2019: The Long Take, by Robin Robertson

2018: The Gallows Pole, by Benjamin Myers

2017: Days Without End, by Sebastian Barry

2016: Tightrope, by Simon Mawer

2015: The Ten Thousand Things, by John Spurling

2014: An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris

2013: The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng

2012: On Canaan’s Side, by Sebastian Barry

2011: The Long Song, by Andrea Levy

2010: Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel

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