The Mail on Sunday/John Llewllyn Rhys Prize

Founded in 1942 by Jane Oliver in memory of her late husband John Llewellyn Rhys, a young writer killed in World War II, this prize is administered by the Book Trust. Mail on Sunday sponsorship is a recent development.Any work of literature, fiction or non-fiction, written by a British or Commonwealth writer under the age of 35 is eligible if written in English and published in the United Kingdom. Publishers submit entries. Previous winners are not eligible. The winner receives £5000 and the runners-up receive £500.

1942 Michael Richey Sunk by a Mine 1943 Morwenna Donelly Beauty for Ashes 1944 Alun Lewis The Last Inspection 1945 James Aldridge The Sea Eagle 1946 Oriel Malet My Bird Sings 1947 Anne-Marie Walters Moondrop to Gascony 1948 Richard Mason The Wind Cannot Read 1949 Emma Smith Maiden's Trip 1950 Kenneth Allsop Adventure Lit Their Star 1951 Elizabeth Jane Howard The Beautiful Visit 1952 No Award 1953 Rachel Trickett The Return Home 1954 Tom Stacey The Hostile Sun 1955 John Wiles The Moon to Play With 1956 John Hearne Voices Under the Window 1957 Ruskin Bond The Room on the Roof 1958 V. S. Naipaul The Mystic Masseur 1959 Dan Jacobson A Long Way from London 1960 David Caute At Fever Pitch 1961 David Storey Flight Into Camden 1962 Robert Rhodes James Edward Lucie-Smith An Introduction to the House of Commons A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems 1963 Peter Marshall Two Lives 1964 Nell Dunn Up the Junction 1965 Julian Mitchell The White Father 1966 Margaret Drabble The Millstone 1967 Anthony Masters The Seahorse 1968 Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop 1969 Melvyn Bragg Without a City Wall 1970 Angus Calder The People's War 1971 Shiva Naipaul Fireflies 1972 Susan Hill The Albatross 1973 Peter Smalley A Warm Gun 1974 Hugh Fleetwood The Girl Who Passed for Normal 1975 David Hare Tim Jeal Knuckle Cushing's Crusade 1976 No Award 1977 Richard Cork Vorticism & Abstract Art in the First Machine Age 1978 A. N. Wilson The Sweets of Pimlico 1979 Peter Boardman The Shining Mountain 1980 Desmond Hogan The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea 1981 A. N. Wilson The Laird of Abbotsford 1982 William Boyd An Ice-Cream War 1983 Lisa St Aubin de Teran The Slow Train to Milan 1984 Andrew Motion Dangerous Play 1985 John Milne Out of the Blue 1986 Tim Parks Loving Roger 1987 Jeanette Winterson The Passion 1988 Matthew Yorke The March Fence 1989 Claire Harman Sylvia Townsend Warner 1990 Ray Monk Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius 1991 A. L. Kennedy Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains 1992 Matthew Kneale Sweet Thames 1993 Jason Goodwin On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul 1994 Jonathan Coe What a Carve Up! 1995 Melanie McGrath Motel Nirvana 1996 Nicola Barker Heading Inland 1997 Phil Whitaker Eclipse of the Sun 1998 Peter Ho Davies The Ugliest House in the World 1999 David Mitchell Ghostwritten 2000 Edward Platt Leadville 2001 Susanna Jones The Earthquake Bird 2002 Hari Kunzru The Impressionist (declined by author); prize went to alternate, Mary Laven, Virgins of Venice 2003  Charlotte Mendelson Daughters of Jerusalem 2004 Jonathan Trigell Boy A. 2005 Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation 2006 Sarah Hall The Carhullan Army

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