Desmond Elliott Prize

About the Desmond Elliott Prize

Every winning, shortlisted and longlisted book for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the UK and Ireland prize for a first novel, listed once at its highest level. Category is Fiction because only debut novels were eligible. Year is the year the prize was awarded; it ran from 2008 to 2022, then was paused, so there are no rows for 2006-2007 or 2023-2025. The Desmond Elliott Charitable Trust ran it until 2019 and the National Centre for Writing from 2020. Winners come from the NCW past winners list. 2020-2022 shortlists and longlists come from NCW's own announcements. 2008-2019 shortlists and longlists come from web.archive.org snapshots of the trust's site, desmondelliottprize.org.uk, which is now offline. The 2008 and 2009 longlist pages give titles only, so those longlist authors come from ibrowsebooks.com. The 2008 longlist had 11 books; other years had 10. The 2021 longlist page spells Doireann Ní Ghríofa as Doireann Ni Griofa; the row uses the published name.

Organization: National Centre for Writing. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)