Heinemann Award
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Awards list
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- 1945 A Prospect of Flowers, botanical reminiscences by Andrew Young, poet and vicar of Stonegate in Sussex
- 1954 The Ermine: poems, 1942–1952 by Ruth Pitter
- 1955 R. S. Thomas
- 1961 The Masks of Love by Vernon Scannell
- 1961 The Hashemite Kings by Jan Morris
- 1962 The Tiger At The Gates by Christopher Fry
- 1963 Mrs. Browning: A Poet's Work and Its Setting by Alethea Hayter
- 1964 The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger
- 1969 V. S. Pritchett
- 1972 Thomas Kilroy
- 1973 Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
- 1974 Mooncranker's Gift by Barry Unsworth
- 1975 William Wilberforce by Robin Furneaux
- 1976 Angels at the Ritz by William Trevor
- 1979 Live Bait and Other Stories by Frank Tuohy
- 1981 Old Glory: An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban
- 1984 T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd (joint winner)
- 1985 Secrets of a Woman's Heart: Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1920–69 by Hilary Spurling
- 1988 The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff
- 1989 Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography by Margaret Forster
- 1990 Short Afternoons by Kit Wright
- 1991 Ford Maddox Ford by Alan Judd
- 1994 The Handless Maiden by Vicki Feaver
- 1996 The Shadow of Hiroshima and Other Film/Poems by Tony Harrison
- 1997 Victor Hugo by Graham Robb
- 1998 Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804–1834 by Richard Holmes
- 2001 Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia by Catherine Merridale
- 2002 Primo Levi by Ian Thomson
- 2004 Power and Glory by Adam Nicolson
References
- ↑ Directory of Grants in the Humanities The Heinemann Award is given primarily to reward those classes of literature which are less remunerative; namely, poetry, criticism, biography,
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