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Local community organisations, clubs, courses and programmesGuardian First Book Award
The award is for any first book, fiction or non fiction, prose or poetry.
Before 1999, this award existed in a different format as the Guardian Fiction Prize. The winner is chosen by a panel of judges. The short-list is decided by reading groups organized by the bookstore chain Borders.
Report on the 2007 award winner
The Guardian, 119 Farrington Road
London EC1R 3ER, England.
2007
Children of the Revolution Winner- Dinaw Mengestu (Jonathan Cape)
- A Golden Age
- Tahmima Anam (John Murray)
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury)
- God's Architect
- Rosemary Hill (Allen Lane)
- What Was Lost
- Catherine O'Flynn (Tindal Street Press)
2006
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Winner
- Yiyun Li
- Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
- Carrie Tiffany
- In the Country of Men
- Hisham Matar
- Harbor
- Lorraine Adams
- Poppy Shakespeare
- Clare Allan
2005
- Stuart: A Life Backwards Winner
- Alexander Masters
- No God but God
- Reza Aslan
- The Farm
- Richard Benson
- Bombay: Maximum City
- Suketu Mehta
- Sightseeing
- Rattawut Lapcharoensap
2004
- Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body Winner
- Armand Marie Leroi
- Ground Water
- Matthew Hollis
- Natasha
- David Bezmozgis
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
- Susanna Clarke
- The Places in Between
- Rory Stewart
2003
- Mountains of the Mind Winner
- Robert Macfarlane
- Brick Lane
- Monica Ali
- Vernon God Little
- DBC Pierre
- Into the Silent Land
- Paul Broks
- Stasiland
- Anna Funder
2002
- Everything is Illuminated Winner
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Only good thing anyone has ever done
- Sandra Newman
- The Impressionist
- Hari Kunzru
- Don't let's go to the dogs tonight
- Alexandra Fuller
- Mapping Mars: Science, imagination and the birth of a world
- Oliver Morton
2001
- Jimmy Corrigan: The smartest kid on Earth Winner
- Chris Ware
- Carter beats the devil
- Glen David Gold
- Wittgenstein's poker
- David Edmonds and John Eidinow
- Anthony Blunt: His lives
- Miranda Carter
- The Dark room
- Rachel Seiffert
2000
- White teeth Winner
- Zadie Smith
- House of leaves
- Mark Z Danielewski
- Catfish and Mandala, a Vietnamese odyssey
- Andrew Pham
- No logo
- Naomi Klein
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- Dave Eggers
1999
- We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families Winner
- Philip Gourevitch
- Ghostwritten
- David Mitchell
- Boxy an star
- Daren King
- The Lighthouse Stevensons
- Bella Bathurst
- No place like home
- Gary Young
- The Blue bedspread
- Raj Kamal Jha
