Encore Award

Encore Award
Encore Award
Sponsored by	Lucy Astor
Date	1990; 34 years ago
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Royal Society of Literature
Reward(s)	£15,000
Website	rsliterature.org/award/rsl-encore-award/

The £15,000 Encore Award for the best second novel was first awarded in 1990.^[1] It is sponsored by Lucy Astor,^[1] presented by the Royal Society of Literature. The award fills a niche in the catalogue of literary prizes by celebrating the achievement of outstanding second novels, often neglected in comparison to the attention given to promising first books.^[2] Entry is by publisher.

List of winners

Ali Smith won with *Hotel World* in 2002.

Year	Author	Book	Award
1990	Peter Benson	A Lesser Dependency	£3,750
1990	Paul Watkins	Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn^[1]	£3,750
1991	Carey Harrison	Richard's Feet	£7,500
1992	Iain Sinclair	Downriver^[1]	£7,500
1993	Colm Tóibín	The Heather Blazing^[1]	£7,500
1994	Amit Chaudhuri	Afternoon Raag^[1]	£7,500
1995	Dermot Healy	A Goat's Song^[3]	£7,500
1996	A. L. Kennedy	So I am Glad^[1]	£7,500
1997	David Flusfeder	Like Plastic	£7,500
1998	Timothy O'Grady	I Could Read the Sky	£3,750
1998	Alan Warner	These Demented Lands^[1]	£3,750
1999	Christina Koning	Undiscovered Country^[1]	£7,500
2000	John Burnside	The Mercy Boys^[4]	£2,500
	Claire Messud	The Last Life	£2,500
	Matt Thorne	Eight Minutes Idle	£2,500
	Phil Whitaker	Triangulation	£2,500
2001	Anne Enright	What Are You Like?^[5]	£10,000
2002	Ali Smith	Hotel World^[2]	£10,000
2003	Jeremy Gavron	The Book of Israel	£10,000
2004	Michelle de Kretser	The Hamilton Case^[6]	£10,000
2005	Nadeem Aslam	Maps for Lost Lovers^[7]	£10,000
2006/07	M. J. Hyland	Carry Me Down^[2]	£10,000
2008/09	Julia Leigh	Disquiet^[8]	£10,000
2010/11	Adam Foulds	The Quickening Maze	£10,000
2011	Joe Dunthorne	Wild Abandon^[9]	£10,000
2012	Ned Beauman	The Teleportation Accident^[10]	£10,000
2013	Evie Wyld	All the Birds, Singing^[11]	£10,000
2014	Neel Mukherjee	The Lives of Others^[12]	£10,000
2015	Sunjeev Sahota	The Year of the Runaways^[13]	£10,000
2017	Ian McGuire	The North Water^[14]	£10,000
2018	Andrew Michael Hurley	Devil's Day^[15]	£5,000
2018	Lisa McInerney	The Blood Miracles^[15]	£5,000
2019	Sally Rooney	Normal People^[16]	£10,000
2020	Patrick McGuinness	Throw Me to the Wolves^[17]	£10,000
2021	Caoilinn Hughes	The Wild Laughter^[18]	£10,000
2022	Francis Spufford	Light Perpetual^[19]	£10,000
2023	Daisy Hildyard	Emergency^[20]	£10,000
2024	Isabella Hammad	Enter Ghost^[21]	£15,000

References

External links

Official website

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