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The W. H. Heinemann Award is an award established by William Heinemann who bequested funds to the Royal Society of Literature to establish a literary prize, given from 1945 to 2003.

Awards list

  • 1945 A Prospect of Flowers, botanical reminiscences by Andrew Young, poet and vicar of Stonegate in Sussex
  • 1946 The Garden by Vita Sackville-West
  • 1947 Letters to Malaya by Martyn Skinner
  • 1948 Selected Poems by John Betjeman
  • 1951 Gormenghast and The Glassblowers by Mervyn Peake
  • 1952 The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
  • 1953 Edwin Muir
  • 1954 The Ermine: poems, 1942–1952 by Ruth Pitter (joint winner)
  • 1954 The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley (joint winner)
  • 1955 Song at the Year's Turning by R. S. Thomas
  • 1956 Roman Mornings by James Lees-Milne
  • 1958 The Chequer'd Shade by John Press
  • 1959 The Devil's Advocate by Morris West
  • 1961 The Masks of Love by Vernon Scannell
  • 1961 The Hashemite Kings by Jan Morris
  • 1962 Curmantle by Christopher Fry
  • 1962 The Destruction of Lord Raglan by Christopher Hibbert
  • 1963 Mrs. Browning: A Poet's Work and Its Setting by Alethea Hayter
  • 1964 The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger
  • 1965 Journey from Obscurity: Wildred Owen, 1893-1919 by Harold Owen
  • 1966 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • 1967 Charlotte Bronte: The Evolution of Genius by Winifred Gérin
  • 1968 George Eliot: A Biography by Gordon S. Haight
  • 1969 Sir William Hamilton: Envoy Extraordinary by Brian Fothergill
  • 1969 V. S. Pritchett
  • 1970 Britain and Her Army by Corelli Barnett
  • 1971 Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica by Dorothy Carrington
  • 1972 Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill
  • 1973 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
  • 1974 Mooncranker's Gift by Barry Unsworth
  • 1974 Eclipse by Nicholas Wollaston
  • 1975 William Wilberforce by Robin Furneaux
  • 1976 Angels at the Ritz by William Trevor
  • 1978 The First Fabians by Norman Ian MacKenzie and Jeanne MacKenzie
  • 1979 Live Bait and Other Stories by Frank Tuohy
  • 1979 Beckford of Fonthill by Brian Fothergill
  • 1980 Moortown by Ted Hughes
  • 1981 Old Glory: An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban
  • 1983 Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott
  • 1984 T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd (joint winner)
  • 1984 Eleni by Nicholas Gage (joint winner)
  • 1985 Secrets of a Woman's Heart: Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1920–69 by Hilary Spurling
  • 1986 The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
  • 1988 The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff
  • 1989 Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography by Margaret Forster
  • 1990 Short Afternoons by Kit Wright
  • 1991 Ford Maddox Ford by Alan Judd
  • 1994 The Handless Maiden by Vicki Feaver
  • 1995 Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French (joint winner)
  • 1995 Paul Durcan (joint winner)
  • 1996 The Shadow of Hiroshima and Other Film/Poems by Tony Harrison
  • 1997 Victor Hugo by Graham Robb
  • 1998 Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804–1834 by Richard Holmes
  • 2001 Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia by Catherine Merridale
  • 2002 Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne
  • 2003 Primo Levi by Ian Thomson
  • 2004 Power and Glory by Adam Nicolson

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