title: David Higham Prize for Fiction
text: # David Higham Prize for Fiction
  
  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
  