The David Higham Prize for Fiction was inaugurated in 1975 to mark the 80th birthday of David Higham, literary agent, and was awarded annually to a citizen of the Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa for a first novel or book of short stories. It was cancelled in 1999 due to "the lack of publicity its winners received."
Past winners 1975 - Jane Gardam - Black Faces, White Faces and Matthew Vaughan - Chalky 1976 - Caroline Blackwood - The Stepdaughter 1977 - Patricia Finney - A Shadow of Gulls 1978 - Leslie Norris - Sliding: Short Stories 1979 - John Harvey - The Plate Shop 1980 - Ted Harriot - Keep On Running 1981 - Christopher Hope - A Separate Development 1982 - Glyn Hughes - Where I Used to Play on the Green 1983 - R. M. Lamming - The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti 1984 - James Buchan - A Parish of Rich Women 1985 - Patricia Ferguson - Family Myths and Legends 1986 - Jim Crace - Continent 1987 - Adam Zameenzad - The Thirteenth House 1988 - Carol Birch - Life in the Palace 1989 - Tim O'Grady - Motherland 1990 - Russell Celyn Jones - Soldiers and Innocents 1991 - John Loveday - Halo 1992 - Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia 1993 - Nicola Barker - Love Your Enemies 1994 - Fred D'Aguiar - The Longest Memory 1995 - Vikram Chandra - Red Earth and Pouring Rain 1996 - Linda Grant - The Cast Iron Shore 1997 - Ronald Wright - A Scientific Romance 1998 - Gavin Kramer - Shopping
References Awards up to 1988: Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd