The original endowment is now supplemented by the Scottish Arts Council , and the winner is chosen by the Professor of English Literature at the University Of Edinburgh .
Two prizes are awarded annually, one for Fiction and the other for Biography ; the amount for each prize is £3,000.
Only those works of fiction and biographies that were written in English, originated with a British publisher, and first published in Britain in the 12 month period prior to the submission date (30 September) are eligible for the award.
- 1919 - Hugh Walpole , ''The Secret City''
- 1920 - D. H. Lawrence , '' The Lost Girl ''
- 1921 - Walter De La Mare , ''Memoirs of a Midget''
- 1922 - David Garnett , ''Lady Into Fox''
- 1923 - Arnold Bennett , '' Riceyman Steps ''
- 1924 - E. M. Forster , '' A Passage To India ''
- 1925 - Liam O'Flaherty , ''The Informer''
- 1926 - Radclyffe Hall , ''Adam's Breed''
- 1927 - Francis Brett Young , ''The Portrait of Clare''
- 1928 - Siegfried Sassoon , ''Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man''
- 1929 - J. B. Priestley , ''The Good Companions''
- 1930 - E. H. Young , ''Miss Mole''
- 1931 - Kate O'Brien , ''Without My Cloak''
- 1932 - Helen Simpson , ''Boomerang''
- 1933 - A. G. Macdonell , '' England, Their England ''
- 1934 - Robert Graves , ''I, Claudius'' and ''Claudius the God''
- 1935 - L. H. Myers , ''The Root and the Flower''
- 1936 - Winifred Holtby , ''South Riding''
- 1937 - Neil M. Gunn , ''Highland River''
- 1938 - C. S. Forester , ''A Ship of the Line'' and ''Flying Colours''
- 1939 - Aldous Huxley '' After Many A Summer Dies The Swan ''
- 1940 - Charles Morgan , ''The Voyage''
- 1941 - Joyce Cary , ''A House of Children''
- 1942 - Arthur Waley , Translation of ''Monkey'' by Wu Cheng'en
- 1943 - Mary Lavin , ''Tales from Bective Bridge''
- 1944 - Forrest Reid , ''Young Tom''
- 1945 - L. A. G. Strong , ''Travellers''
- 1946 - Oliver Onions , ''Poor Man's Tapestry''
- 1947 - L. P. Hartley , ''Eustace and Hilda''
- 1948 - Graham Greene , '' The Heart Of The Matter ''
- 1949 - Emma Smith , ''The Far Cry''
- 1950 - Robert Henriques , ''Through the Valley''
- 1951 - Chapman Mortimer , '' Father Goose ''
- 1952 - Evelyn Waugh , ''Men at Arms''
- 1953 - Margaret Kennedy , ''Troy Chimneys''
- 1954 - C. P. Snow , ''The Men and the Masters''
- 1955 - Ivy Compton-Burnett , ''Mother and Son''
- 1956 - Rose Macaulay , ''The Towers of Trebizond''
- 1957 - Anthony Powell , ''At Lady Molly's''
- 1958 - Angus Wilson , ''The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot''
- 1959 - Morris West , ''The Devil's Advocate''
- 1960 - Rex Warner , ''Imperial Caesar''
- 1961 - Jennifer Dawson , ''The Ha-Ha''
- 1962 - Ronald Hardy , ''Act of Destruction''
- 1963 - Gerda Charles , ''A Slanting Light''
- 1964 - Frank Tuohy , ''The Ice Saints''
- 1965 - Muriel Spark , ''The Mandelbaum Gate''
- 1966 - Christine Brooke-Rose , ''Such'', and Aidan Higgins , ''Langrishe, Go Down''
- 1967 - Margaret Drabble , ''Jerusalem The Golden''
- 1968 - Maggie Ross , ''The Gasteropod''
- 1969 - Elizabeth Bowen , ''Eva Trout''
- 1970 - Lily Powell , ''The Bird of Paradise''
- 1971 - Nadine Gordimer , ''A Guest of Honour''
- 1972 - John Berger , ''G''
- 1973 - Iris Murdoch , ''The Black Prince''
- 1974 - Lawrence Durrell , ''Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness''
- 1975 - Brian Moore , ''The Great Victorian Collection''
- 1976 - John Banville , ''Doctor Copernicus''
- 1977 - John Le Carré , ''The Honourable Schoolboy''
- 1978 - Maurice Gee , ''Plumb''
- 1979 - William Golding , ''Darkness Visible''
- 1980 - J. M. Coetzee , ''Waiting for the Barbarians''
- 1981 - Salman Rushdie , '' Midnight's Children '', and Paul Theroux , '' The Mosquito Coast ''
- 1982 - Bruce Chatwin , '' On The Black Hill ''
- 1983 - Jonathan Keates , ''Allegro Postillions''
- 1984 - J. G. Ballard , '' Empire Of The Sun '', and Angela Carter , ''Nights at the Circus''
- 1985 - Robert Edric , ''Winter Garden''
- 1986 - Jenny Joseph , ''Persephone''
- 1987 - George Mackay Brown , ''The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories''
- 1988 - Piers Paul Read , ''A Season in the West''
- 1989 - James Kelman , ''A Disaffection''
- 1990 - William Boyd , ''Brazzaville Beach''
- 1991 - Iain Sinclair , ''Downriver''
- 1992 - Rose Tremain , ''Sacred Country''
- 1993 - Caryl Phillips , ''Crossing the River''
- 1994 - Alan Hollinghurst , '' The Folding Star ''
- 1995 - Christopher Priest , '' The Prestige ''
- 1996 - Graham Swift , ''Last Orders'', and Alice Thompson , ''Justine''
- 1997 - Andrew Miller , ''Ingenious Pain''
- 1998 - Beryl Bainbridge , ''Master Georgie''
- 1999 - Timothy Mo , ''Renegade, or Halo2''
- 2000 - Zadie Smith , '' White Teeth ''
- 2001 - Sid Smith , ''Something Like a House''
- 2002 - Jonathan Franzen , '' The Corrections ''
- 2003 - Andrew O'Hagan , ''Personality''
- 2004 - David Peace , ''GB84''
- 1919 - Henry Festing Jones , '' Samuel Butler , Author of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoir''
- 1920 - G. M. Trevelyan , '' Lord Grey of the Reform Bill''
- 1921 - Lytton Strachey , '' Queen Victoria ''
- 1922 - Percy Lubbock , ''Earlham''
- 1923 - Sir Ronald Ross , ''Memoirs, Etc.''
- 1924 - Rev. William Wilson , ''The House of Airlie''
- 1925 - Geoffrey Scott , ''The Portrait of Zelide''
- 1926 - Reverend Dr H. B. Workman , '' John Wyclif : A Study of the English Medieval Church''
- 1927 - H. A. L. Fisher , '' James Bryce , Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.''
- 1928 - John Buchan , '' Montrose ''
- 1929 - Lord David Cecil , ''The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper''
- 1930 - Francis Yeats Brown , ''Lives of a Bengal Lancer''
- 1931 - J. Y. R. Greig , '' David Hume ''
- 1932 - Stephen Gwynn , ''The Life of Mary Kingsley ''
- 1933 - Violet Clifton , ''The Book of Talbot''
- 1934 - J. E. Neale , '' Queen Elizabeth ''
- 1935 - R. W. Chambers , '' Thomas More ''
- 1936 - ''
- 1937 - Lord Eustace Percy , '' John Knox ''
- 1938 - Sir Edmund Chambers , '' Samuel Taylor Coleridge ''
- 1939 - David C. Douglas , ''English Scholars''
- 1940 - ''
- 1941 - John Gore , '' King George V ''
- 1942 - Lord Ponsonby Of Shulbrede , '' Henry Ponsonby : Queen Victoria's Private Secretary''
- 1943 - G. G. Coulton , ''Fourscore Years''
- 1944 - C. V. Wedgwood , '' William The Silent ''
- 1945 - D. S. MacColl , '' Philip Wilson Steer ''
- 1946 - Richard Aldington , '' Wellington ''
- 1947 - Rev. C. C. E. Raven , ''English Naturalists from Neckham to Ray''
- 1948 - Percy A. Scholes , ''The Great Dr Burney''
- 1949 - John Connell , '' W. E. Henley ''
- 1950 - Cecil Woodham-Smith , '' Florence Nightingale ''
- 1951 - Noel Annan , '' Leslie Stephen ''
- 1952 - G. M. Young , '' Stanley Baldwin ''
- 1953 - Carola Oman , '' Sir John Moore ''
- 1954 - Keith Feiling , '' Warren Hastings ''
- 1955 - R. W. Ketton-Cremer , '' Thomas Gray ''
- 1956 - St John Greer Ervine , '' George Bernard Shaw ''
- 1957 - Maurice Cranston , ''Life of John Locke ''
- 1958 - Joyce Hemlow , ''The History of Fanny Burney ''
- 1959 - Christopher Hassall , '' Edward Marsh ''
- 1960 - Canon Adam Fox , ''The Life of Dean Inge ''
- 1961 - M. K. Ashby , '' Joseph Ashby of Tysoe''
- 1962 - Meriol Trevor , ''Newman: The Pillar and the Cloud'' and ''Newman: Light in Winter''
- 1963 - Georgina Battiscome , '' John Keble : A Study in Limitations''
- 1964 - Elizabeth Longford , ''Victoria R.I.''
- 1965 - Mary Moorman , '' William Wordsworth : The Later Years 1803-1850''
- 1966 - Geoffrey Keynes , ''The Life of William Harvey ''
- 1967 - Winifred Gérin , '' Charlotte Brontë : The Evolution of Genius''
- 1968 - Gordon Haight , '' George Eliot ''
- 1969 - Antonia Fraser , '' Mary, Queen Of Scots ''
- 1970 - Jasper Ridley , '' Lord Palmerston ''
- 1971 - Julia Namier , '' Lewis Namier ''
- 1972 - Quentin Bell , '' Virginia Woolf ''
- 1973 - Robin Lane Fox , '' Alexander The Great ''
- 1974 - John Wain , '' Samuel Johnson ''
- 1975 - Karl Miller , ''Cockburn's Millennium''
- 1976 - Ronald Hingley , ''A New Life of Chekhov ''
- 1977 - George Painter , '' Chateaubriand : Volume 1 - The Longed-For Tempests''
- 1978 - Robert Gittings , ''The Older Hardy ''
- 1979 - Brian Finney , '' Christopher Isherwood : A Critical Biography''
- 1980 - Robert B. Martin , '' Tennyson : The Unquiet Heart''
- 1981 - Victoria Glendinning , '' Edith Sitwell : Unicorn Among Lions ''
- 1982 - Richard Ellmann , '' James Joyce ''
- 1983 - Alan Walker , '' Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years''
- 1984 - Lyndall Gordon , '' Virginia Woolf : A Writer's Life''
- 1985 - David Nokes , '' Jonathan Swift : A Hypocrite Reversed''
- 1986 - D. Felicitas Corrigan , '' Helen Waddell ''
- 1987 - Ruth Dudley Edwards , '' Victor Gollancz : A Biography''
- 1988 - Brian McGuinness , '' Wittgenstein , A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921)''
- 1989 - Ian Gibson , '' Federico Garcia Lorca : A Life''
- 1990 - and Charles Dickens ''
- 1991 - Adrian Desmond and James Moore , '' Darwin ''
- 1992 - ''
- 1993 - Richard Holmes , '' Dr Johnson and Mr Savage''
- 1994 - Doris Lessing , ''Under My Skin''
- 1995 - Gitta Sereny , '' Albert Speer : His Battle with the Truth''
- 1996 - Diarmaid MacCulloch , '' Thomas Cranmer : A Life''
- 1997 - R. F. Foster , '' W. B. Yeats : A Life, Volume 1 - The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914''
- 1998 - Peter Ackroyd , ''The Life of Thomas More ''
- 1999 - Kathryn Hughes , '' George Eliot : The Last Victorian''
- 2000 - Martin Amis , ''Experience''
- 2001 - Robert Skidelsky , '' John Maynard Keynes : Volume 3 - Fighting for Britain 1937-1946 ''
- 2002 - Jenny Uglow , ''The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810''
- 2003 - Janet Browne , '' Charles Darwin : Volume 2 - The Power of Place''
- 2004 - Jonathan Bate , '' John Clare : A Biography''
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