The McKitterick Prize is administered by the Society of Authors and awarded in respect of a first novel (published or unpublished) by an author over the age of forty. The prize was endowed by Tom McKitterick, the former editor of the Political Quarterly, whose novel (presumably written after he'd reached the age of forty) was never published. The value of the prize was £5,000 from 1990 until 1996 when it was reduced to £4,000.
Past Winners
- 1990 - Simon Mawer, Chimera
- 1991 - John Loveday, A Summer to Halo
- 1992 - Alberto Manguel, News from a Foreign Country Came
- 1993 - Andrew Barrow, The Tap Dancer
- 1994 - Helen Dunmore, Zennor in Darkness
- 1995 - Christopher Bigsby, Hester
- 1996 - Stephen Blanchard, Gagarin and I
- 1997 - Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault
- 1998 - Eli Gottlieb, The Boy Who Went Away
- 1999 - Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts
- 2000 - Chris Dolan, Ascension Day
- 2001 - Giles Waterfield, The Long Afternoon
- 2002 - Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu
- 2003 - Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
- 2004 - Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- 2005 - Lloyd Jones, Mr Vogel
- 2006 - Peter Pouncey, Rules for Old Men Waiting
REFERENCES
http://www.societyofauthors.net/soa/page_id_sub.php4?pid=37&parentid=7&par_nm=Prizes,%20grants%20and%20awards
http://www.boothill.ca/goatwrrld/ten%20literary%20prizes.html