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Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a literary award that annually recognises one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom. It is awarded to the author of the book by The Guardian newspaper. It is a lifetime award in that previous winners are not eligible.

Year

Writer

Title

2016

Alex Wheatle

Crongton Knights

2015

David Almond

A Song for Ella Grey

2014

Piers Torday

The Dark Wild

2013

Rebecca Stead

Liar & Spy

2012

Frank Cottrell Boyce

The Unforgotten Coat

2011

Andy Mulligan

Return To Ribblestrop

2010

Michelle Paver

Ghost Hunter

2009

Mal Peet

Exposure

2008

Patrick Ness

The Knife of Never Letting Go

2007

Jenny Valentine

Finding Violet Park

2006

Philip Reeve

A Darkling Plain

2005

Kate Thompson

The New Policeman

2004

Meg Rosoff

How I Live Now

2003

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  

2002

Sonya Hartnett

Thursday's Child

2001[a]

Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Seeing Stone

2000[a]

Jacqueline Wilson

The Illustrated Mum

1999

Susan Price

The Sterkarm Handshake

1998

Henrietta Branford

Fire, Bed and Bone

1997

Melvin Burgess

Junk

1996[b]

Philip Pullman

Northern Lights 
(US title, The Golden Compass)

1996[b]

Alison Prince

The Sherwood Hero

1995

Lesley Howarth

MapHead

1994

Sylvia Waugh

The Mennyms

1993

William Mayne

Low Tide

1992[b]

Rachel Anderson

Paper Faces

1992[b]

Hilary McKay

The Exiles

1991

Robert Westall

The Kingdom by the Sea

1990

Anne Fine

Goggle-Eyes

1989

Geraldine McCaughrean  

A Pack of Lies

1988

Ruth Thomas

The Runaways

1987

James Aldridge

The True Story of Spit MacPhee 

1986

Ann Pilling

Henry's Leg

1985

Ted Hughes

What is the Truth

1984

Dick King-Smith

The Sheep-Pig 
(US title, Babe, the Gallant Pig)

1983

Anita Desai

The Village by the Sea

1982

Michelle Magorian

Goodnight Mr Tom

1981

Peter Carter

The Sentinels

1980

Ann Schlee

The Vandal

1979

Andrew Davies

Conrad's War

1978

Diana Wynne Jones

Charmed Life

1977

Peter Dickinson

The Blue Hawk

1976

Nina Bawden

The Peppermint Pig

1975

Winifred Cawley

Gran at Coalgate

1974

Barbara Willard

The Iron Lily

1973

Richard Adams

Watership Down

1972

Gillian Avery

A Likely Lad

1971

John Christopher

The Guardians

1970

K. M. Peyton

The Flambards trilogy (1967–1969)

1969

Joan Aiken

The Whispering Mountain

1968

Alan Garner

The Owl Service

1967

Leon Garfield

Devil-in-the-Fog