Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award

Given by The Sunday Times

Other Names: Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year, Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2015-2018)
54 Works / 55 Items 32,281 Books 1,045 Reviews ½ 3.7
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award is awarded to a British author under the age of 35 for a published work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
Stages:
All, Winner (25), Shortlist (30)
Years:
All, 2023 (4), 2022 (4), 2021 (5), 2020 (4), 2019 (4), 2018 (4), 2017 (5), 2016 (4), 2015 (5), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1)

Winner 25

WorkYear
The New Life by Tom Crewe2023
Oxblood by Tom Benn2022
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn2021
Surge by Jay Bernard2020
Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus2019
Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North by Adam Weymouth2018
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney2017
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter2016
Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe2015
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin2009
The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds2008
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman2007
Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit by Robert Macfarlane2004
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes2003
White Teeth by Zadie Smith2001
Affinity by Sarah Waters2000
The Boy from the Chemist Is Here to See You by Paul Farley1999
Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division by Patrick French1998
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford1997
Truffle Beds by Katherine Pierpoint1996
Pig by Andrew Cowan1995
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple1994
Xanadu by Simon Armitage1993
Cambridge by Caryl Phillips1992
Four Bare Legs in a Bed by Helen Simpson1991

Shortlist 30

WorkYear
Close to Home by Michael Magee2023
A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma by Noreen Masud2023
Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri2023
Larger than an Orange by Lucy Burns2022
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer2022
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell2022
Here Comes the Miracle by Anna Beecher2021
My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long2021
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson2021
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan2021
Inferno: A Memoir by Catherine Cho2020
Tongues of Fire by Seán Hewitt2020
Nightingale by Marina Kemp2020
salt slow by Julia Armfield2019
Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler2019
Testament by Kim Sherwood2019
The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite by Laura Freeman2018
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar2018
Elmet by Fiona Mozley2018
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman by Minoo Dinshaw2017
The End of the Day by Claire North2017
The Lucky Ones: A Novel by Julianne Pachico2017
The Lauras by Sara Taylor2017
An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw it: A John Murray Original by Jessie Greengrass2016
Physical by Andrew McMillan2016
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood2016
The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson2015
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin2015
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota2015
The Shore by Sara Taylor2015

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