Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize

The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize is a literary award for eight British writers of outstanding works of fiction, who each receive £5,000.[1]

History

Fiction Uncovered was established in 2011 by The Literary Platform with funding from Arts Council England, and became the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize with sponsorship from the Jerwood Foundation from 2014.

Past winners

2011

Forgetting Zoë by Ray Robinson The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke Disputed Land by Tim Pears The London Satyr by Robert Edric

Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling The Proof of Love by Catherine Hall The English German Girl by Jake Wallis Simons Night Waking by Sarah Moss

2012

When Nights Were Cold by Susanna Jones This Is Life by Dan Rhodes The Light of Amsterdam by David Park Hit and Run by Doug Johnstone

Crushed Mexican Spiders by Tibor Fischer Lucky Bunny by Jill Dawson My Former Heart by Cressida Connelly Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson

2013

All the Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell The Heart Broke In by James Meek The Village by Nikita Lalwani The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon

Secrecy by Rupert Thomson Orkney by Amy Sackville Black Bread White Beer by Niven Govinden How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright

2014

Lolito by Ben Brooks Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister The Dig by Cynan Jones

Whatever Happened to Billy Parks? by Gareth Roberts Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood Vanishing by Gerard Woodward All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

2015

The Incarnations by Susan Barker Mother Island by Bethan Roberts Mobile Library by David Whitehouse A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar

Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies Significance by Jo Mazelis The Offering by Grace McCleen

References

1. Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize: Winners Announced Retrieved 2016-04-15.

External links

• Official website
• Matt Haig, "What the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize reveals", The Guardian, 20 June 2014