Desmond Elliott Prize — Complete Winners List

15 years of winners · National Centre for Writing · Since 2007 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2022	Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies	Maddie Mortimer	Picador
2021	The Manningtree Witches	A. K. Blakemore	Granta
2020	That Reminds Me	Derek Owusu	Stormbird Press
2019	Golden Child	Claire Adam	Faber & Faber
2018	We That Are Young	Preti Taneja	Galley Beggar Press
2017	Golden Hill	Francis Spufford	Faber & Faber
2016	The Glorious Heresies	Lisa McInerney	John Murray
2015	Our Endless Numbered Days	Claire Fuller	Fig Tree
2014	A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing	Eimear McBride	Galley Beggar Press
2013	The Marlowe Papers	Ros Barber	Sceptre
2012	The Land of Decoration	Grace McCleen	William Heinemann
2011	Saraswati Park	Anjali Joseph	Fourth Estate
2010	The Girl with Glass Feet	Ali Shaw	Atlantic Books
2009	Blackmoor	Edward Hogan	Simon & Schuster
2008	Gifted	Nikita Lalwani	Viking