Awards & Prizes
Faber and Faber has always published award-winning authors. The company's first success was Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, which was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1929 and is considered to be Faber's first genuine best-seller.
Since then Faber authors have won many of the leading national and international prizes. The list includes eleven Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize-winners, and each year the roll call of successes continues to grow. Here we'll be trying to keep track of all the winners, as well as authors appearing on both long- and shortlists.
In 2006 Faber was named the KPMG Publisher of the Year.
Recent Successes
James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2013: The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn (shortlist)
Wolfson History Prize 2013: Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest by Susan Brigden (joint winner)
Branford Boase Award 2013: The Things We Did for Love by Natasha Farrant (shortlist)
British Sports Book Awards (Best New Writer category) 2013: Running with the Kenyans by Adharanand Finn (shortlist)
Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2013: All the Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell and The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy (both shortlist)
Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards (Creative Communication) 2013: Music as Alchemy and Thomas Ades: Full of Noises by Tom Service (both shortlist)
Commonwealth Writers Prize 2013: Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil and The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo (both shortlist)
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2013: Skios by Michael Frayn
Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year 2013: Pierced by Thomas Enger
Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2013: 'Miss Lora' by Junot Diaz
Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 (5-12 years category): Atticus Claw Breaks the Law by Jennifer Gray (shortlist)
2012 Man Asian Literary Prize: Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil and Silent House by Orhan Pamuk (both shortlist)
Paddy Power/Total Politics Award 2012 (Political Humour/Satire category): Ban this Filth! by Ben Thompson
Portico Prize for Fiction 2012: The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall
Argosy Irish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2012: Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
Costa Book Awards 2012 (Poetry category): The World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus (shortlist)
DSC Prize for Asian Literature 2012: Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Specsavers National Book Awards 2012 (UK Author of the Year category): John Lanchester and Deborah Levy (both shortlist)
Guardian First Book Award 2012: Sandstorm by Lindsey Hilsum (shortlist)
William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2012: Running with the Kenyans by Adharanand Finn (shortlist)
T. S. Eliot Prize 2012: The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage and The World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus (both shortlist)
2012 Dylan Thomas Prize: The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo (shortlist)
MAN Booker Prize for Fiction 2012: Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil and Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (both shortlist)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2012 (Biography category): The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy
Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2012: Farmer's Cross by Bernard O'Donoghue (shortlist)
MAN Booker Prize for Fiction 2012: Skios by Michael Frayn (longlist)
2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
2012 PEN Pinter Prize: Carol Ann Duffy
Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2012: The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall
Spears Book Award 2012 (Fiction category): Capital by John Lanchester (shortlist)
Spears Book Award 2012 (Biography category): Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis (shortlist)
Spears Book Award 2012 (Social History category): The West End Front by Matthew Sweet (shortlist)
2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award: The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall (shortlist)
International Griffin Prize for Poetry: Night by David Harsent
2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature: Is Just a Movie by Earl Lovelace
James Tait Black Biography Prize 2012: The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy (shortlist)
2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize: Open City by Teju Cole (shortlist)
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2012: Capital by John Lanchester (shortlist)
Sky Arts South Bank Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Frayn
Goldsboro Last Laugh Award 2011: Smokeheads by Doug Johnstone
The Desmond Elliott Prize 2012: The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo (longlist)
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012: Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin (shortlist)
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2012: On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
Orange Prize for Fiction 2012: Gillespie and I by Jane Harris (longlist)
2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award: Open City by Teju Cole
2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature: Rohinton Mistry
Nobel Laureates
T. S. Eliot (1948)
Saint-John Perse (1960)
Samuel Beckett (1969)
Czeslaw Milosz (1980)
William Golding (1983)
Derek Walcott (1992)
Seamus Heaney (1995)
Wislawa Szymborska (1996)
Günter Grass (1999)
Harold Pinter (2005)
Orhan Pamuk (2006)
Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
MAN Booker Prize-winners
P. H. Newby: Something to Answer For (1969)
William Golding: Rites of Passage (1980)
Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day (1989)
Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang (2001)
DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little (2003)