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 nine Nobel Laureates and five Booker Prize-winners - spanning a broad range of literary genres.

Faber was named KPMG Publisher of the Year at the 2006 British Book Trade Awards.





1948 T. S. Eliot

1960 Saint-John Perse

1969 Samuel Beckett

1980 Czeslaw Milosz

1983 William Golding

1992 Derek Walcott

1995 Seamus Heaney

1996 Wislawa Szymborska

1999 Günter Grass

2005 Harold Pinter

2006 Orhan Pamuk




1969 P. H. Newby - Something to Answer For

1980 William Golding - Rites of Passage

1988 Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda

1989 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day

2001 Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang

2003 DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little




1985 Douglas Dunn - Elegies (Book of the Year)

1986 Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World (Book of the Year)

1987 Seamus Heaney - The Haw Lantern (Poetry Award)

1990 Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia (First Novel Award)

1990 Ann Thwaite - A. A. Milne: His Life (Biography Award)

1993 Andrew Motion - Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life (Biography Award)

1996 Seamus Heaney - The Spirit Level (Book of the Year)

1997 Ted Hughes - Tales from Ovid (Book of the Year)

1998 Ted Hughes - Birthday Letters (Book of the Year)

1998 Giles Foden - The Last King of Scotland (First Novel Award)

1999 Seamus Heaney - Beowulf (Book of the Year)

2002 Michael Frayn - Spies (Novel of the Year)

2003 DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little (First Novel Award)

2003 Don Paterson - Landing Light (Poetry Award)

2005 Christopher Logue - Cold Calls (Poetry Award)




1992 Thom Gunn - The Man with Night Sweats (Best Collection)

1992 Simon Armitage - Kid (Best First Collection)

1993 Don Paterson - Nil Nil (Best First Collection)

1997 Lavinia Greenlaw - A World Where News Travelled Slowly (Best Single Poem)

1998 Ted Hughes - Birthday Letters (Best Collection)

2005 David Harsent - Legion (Best Collection)

2007 Daljit Nagra - Look We Have Coming to Dover! (Best First Collection

2007 Alice Oswald - Dunt (Best Single Poem)




Edge Hill Short Story Award 2008: Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan (shortlist)


PEN Ackerley Prize 2008: Family Romance by John Lanchester (shortlist)


2008 Brian Way Award (for Best Play for Young People): Yellow Moon by David Greig


Griffin Poetry Prize 2008: Selected Poems: 1969-2005 by David Harsent (International shortlist)


Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008: Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna (shortlist)


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz


Theatre Book Prize 2008: State of the Nation by Michael Billington


National Book Critics' Circle Award for Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz


National Book Critics' Circle Award for Biography: Stanley by Tim Jeal


Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Awards 2008: Red Tears by Joanna Kenrick (shortlist)


2008 South Bank Show / Arts Council Decibel Award: Daljit Nagra


Hessell Tiltman Prize: That Neutral Island by Clair Wills


Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best New Play: The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry (shortlist)


National Book Critics' Circle Awards 2008: Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Stanley by Tim Jeal; Coltrane by Ben Ratliff (all shortlist)


The CILIP Carnegie Children's Book Award 2008: The Forbidden Room by Sarah Wray; The Hat by Carol Ann Duffy (both shortlist)


Bolton Children's Book Award 2007: The Cat Kin by Nick Green (shortlist)


Manchester Book Award 2007: Do the Creepy Thing by Graham Joyce (shortlist)


North East Teenage Book Award 2007: The Forbidden Room by Sarah Wray (shortlist)


South Bank Show Awards 2007 nominee: Richard Milward (The Times Breakthrough Award) for Apples


Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Play: Gregory Burke for Black Watch


John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2007: The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall


Evening Standard/Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright: Polly Stenham for That Face


Evening Standard/Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright: Lucy Caldwell for Leaves (shortlist)


Costa Poetry Award 2007: Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra (shortlist)


IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2008: Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster; Theft by Peter Carey; Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra; Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy; The Life of Hunger by Amelie Nothomb; The Uninvited by Geling Yan (all longlist)


Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year Award 2007: Orpheus by Don Paterson (shortlist)


Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry 2007: Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra (shortlist)


John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2007: Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna (both shortlist)


Longman/History Today Book of the Year 2008: The Khyber Pass by Paddy Docherty (shortlist)


Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award 2007: The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin and Murder at Deviation Junction by Andrew Martin (both shortlist)


2007 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for Poetry: Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra (shortlist)


Sundial Scottish Arts Book of the Year 2007: The Boy and the Sea by Kirsty Gunn


Yorkshire Children's Book of the Year 2007: Shadowmancer: The Curse of Salamander Street by G. P. Taylor


Scottish Book of the Year 2007 (Fiction category): The Boy and the Sea by Kirsty Gunn


2007 PEN/Ackerley Prize: Mother Country by Jeremy Harding (shortlist)


Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books (8-11 category): The Flight of the Silver Turtle by John Fardell (shortlist)


Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2007: The Holy Land by Maurice Riordan


2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize: Trickster Travels by Natalie Zemon Davis


Encore Award 2007: Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (shortlist)


Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2007: Michael Hofmann for his translation of Durs Grunbein's Ashes for Breakfast (shortlist)


Frank O'Connor Short Story Award 2007: Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan (longlist)


2007 Edgar Allen Poe Awards - Best Novel: The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin


David Cohen Prize 2007 (for a Lifetime's Achievement in Literature): Derek Mahon


BBC Four / Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2007: Nature's Engraver by Jenny Uglow (longlist)


The Man Booker International Prize 2007: Peter Carey (Judges' list)


Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007: Rachel Cusk for Arlington Park; Jane Harris for The Observations; Jane Smiley for Ten Days in the Hills (all longlist)


Good Housekeeping Book Awards 2007: Things to Make and Mend by Ruth Thomas (shortlist)


Beatrice White Prize (for 'Outstanding Scholarly Work in the Field of English Literature Before 1590'): Helen Castor for Blood and Roses


British Book Awards 2007: Flanimals of the Deep by Ricky Gervais (Children's category)


Kiriyama Prize 2007: Certainty by Madeleine Thien (shortlist)


2006 Hutch Crossword Prize for Fiction: Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra


Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2007: District and Circle by Seamus Heaney


Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play: Blackbird by David Harrower


Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007: Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (Europe & South Asia region) and Theft by Peter Carey (South East Asia & South East Pacific region) - both shortlist


Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2007: Leaves by Lucy Caldwell and Pumpgirl by Abbie Spallen (both shortlist)


Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2007: District and Circle by Seamus Heaney (shortlist)


Critics' Circle Award 2007 - Best New Play: Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard


Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize 2007: A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry (shortlist)


Football Book of the Year / British Sports Book Awards 2007: Perfect 10 by Richard Williams (shortlist)


Duff Cooper Prize: Nature's Engraver by Jenny Uglow (longlist)


Mystery Writers of America 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Best Novel): The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (shortlist)


T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2006: District and Circle by Seamus Heaney


Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2006: Alice Oswald for Woods etc.


PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction 2006: Percival Everett for Wounded


Arthur C. Clarke Award 2007: Jan Morris for Hav (shortlist)


Branford Boase Award: Mouse Noses on Toast by Daren King (longlist)


Stockton Children's Book of the Year Award 2007: The Dreamwalker's Child by Steve Voake (shortlist)


South Bank Show Awards - The Times Breakthrough Award 2007: Jane Harris (shortlist)


2006 Nestle Children's Book Prize (6-8 age category): Mouse Noses on Toast by Daren King (Gold Medal Winner)


Longman / History Today Book of the Year Award 2007: Culinary Pleasures by Nicola Humble (shortlist)


PEN Lifetime Achievement Award: Jane Smiley


South Lanarkshire Book Award 2006: Do the Creepy Thing by Graham Joyce


Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Writing: Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan (shortlist)


Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry 2007: Tony Harrison


CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award: The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (shortlist)


Goss First Novel Award: The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (shortlist)


PEN/Ackerley Prize 2006: Untold Stories by Alan Bennett


Betty Trask Prize (for first novelists under 35): Peter Hobbs for A Short Day Dying