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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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)
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)