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
Waterstone's Children's Prize (Fiction, 5-12 category): The Windvale Sprites by Mackenzie Crook (shortlist)
Costa Best Biography Award 2011: Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2011: Jo Shapcott
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award 2011: The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin
Saltire Scottish Book of the Year 2011: Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets by Don Paterson (shortlist)
Costa Poetry Award 2011: Night by David Harsent (shortlist)
The Dylan Thomas Prize 2011: The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell
2011 Biographers' Club H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize: Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2011: The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell
Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award (Irish Book Awards): Seamus Heaney
Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award 2011: On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry (shortlist)
The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011: Bloodland by Alan Glynn
Dylan Thomas Prize 2011: The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell (shortlist)
2011 Galaxy National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year: Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
2011 Galaxy National Book Awards International Author of the Year: Sebastian Barry (shortlist)
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award 2011: The Red Coffin by Sam Eastland; The Cleansing Flames by R. N. Morris (both shortlist)
2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature: Rohinton Mistry
2011 Biographers' Club H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize: The Children of Lovers by Judy Golding; Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett (both shortlist)
2011 PEN/Pinter Prize: David Hare
Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2011: The Wheel by Zinnie Harris
2011 Marsh Biography Award: William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies' by John Carey (shortlist)
MAN Booker Prize 2011: On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry (longlist)
PEN/Ackerley Prize 2011: My Father's Fortune by Michael Frayn
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2011: Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien
The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2011: Night by David Harsent (shortlist)
The Forward Prize for Best Poem 2011: 'Bees' by Jo Shapcott (shortlist)
Bolton Children's Book Award 2011: Fightback by Steve Voake
Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2011: Molotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel Polonsky
CWA Dagger in the Library Award 2011: Jason Goodwin (shortlist)
George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright 2011: Penelope Skinner for The Village Bike
Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Readers' Choice at the Oregon Book Awards: Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
Caribbean Literary Grand Prize 2011: Earl Lovelace
2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (shortlist)
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011: The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk (shortlist)
Spears Biography of the Year 2011: No Angel by Tom Bower (shortlist)
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2011: Foster by Claire Keegan (shortlist)
Orwell Prize 2011: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, and Enough is Enough by Fintan O'Toole (both longlist)
Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2011: Michael Frayn
Orange Prize for Fiction 2011: Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty and The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (both longlist)
Warwick Prize for Writing 2011: The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam and White Egrets by Derek Walcott (both shortlist)
John Florio Prize for Italian Translation 2010: The Embrace by Jamie McKendrick
Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2011: Human Chain by Seamus Heaney, and Maggot by Paul Muldoon (both shortlist)
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)
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)