Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Winners
Through 2015 there have been 51 Prizes awarded in 49 years covering 1966 to mid-2015 publications. There were co-winners in 1992 and 1996.

Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

Section Title: Winners
Table Section Text: Through 2015 there have been 51 Prizes awarded in 49 years covering 1966 to mid-2015 publications. There were co-winners in 1992 and 1996.

Year	Writer	Title	Publisher

2016	Alex Wheatle	Crongton Knights	Atom Books

2015	David Almond	A Song for Ella Grey	Hodder Children's Books

2014	Piers Torday	The Dark Wild	Quercus Publishing

2013	Rebecca Stead	Liar & Spy	Andersen Press

2012	Frank Cottrell Boyce	The Unforgotten Coat	Walker Books

2011	Andy Mulligan	Return To Ribblestrop	Simon & Schuster

2010	Michelle Paver	Ghost Hunter	Orion

2009	Mal Peet	Exposure	Walker Books

2008	Patrick Ness	The Knife of Never Letting Go	Walker Books

2007	Jenny Valentine	Finding Violet Park	HarperCollins

2006	Philip Reeve	A Darkling Plain	Scholastic UK

2005	Kate Thompson	The New Policeman	Bodley Head

2004	Meg Rosoff	How I Live Now	Puffin

2003	Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	David Fickling

2002	Sonya Hartnett	Thursday's Child	Walker Books

2001	Kevin Crossley-Holland	The Seeing Stone	Orion

2000	Jacqueline Wilson	The Illustrated Mum	Transworld

1999	Susan Price	The Sterkarm Handshake	Scholastic UK

1998	Henrietta Branford	Fire, Bed and Bone	Walker Books

1997	Melvin Burgess	Junk	Penguin

1996	Philip Pullman	Northern Lights (US title, The Golden Compass)	Scholastic UK

1996	Alison Prince	The Sherwood Hero	Macmillan

1995	Lesley Howarth	MapHead	Walker Books

1994	Sylvia Waugh	The Mennyms	Julia MacRae

1993	William Mayne	Low Tide	Jonathan Cape

1992	Rachel Anderson	Paper Faces	Oxford

1992	Hilary McKay	The Exiles	Gollancz

1991	Robert Westall	The Kingdom by the Sea	Methuen

1990	Anne Fine	Goggle-Eyes	Hamish Hamilton

1989	Geraldine McCaughrean	A Pack of Lies	Oxford

1988	Ruth Thomas	The Runaways	Hutchinson

1987	James Aldridge	The True Story of Spit MacPhee	Viking Kestrel

1986	Ann Pilling	Henry's Leg	Viking Kestrel

1985	Ted Hughes	What is the Truth	Faber

1984	Dick King-Smith	The Sheep-Pig (US title, Babe, the Gallant Pig)	Gollancz

1983	Anita Desai	The Village by the Sea	Heinemann

1982	Michelle Magorian	Goodnight Mr Tom	Kestrel

1981	Peter Carter	The Sentinels	Oxford

1980	Ann Schlee	The Vandal	Macmillan

1979	Andrew Davies	Conrad's War	Blackie

1978	Diana Wynne Jones	Charmed Life	Macmillan

1977	Peter Dickinson	The Blue Hawk	Gollancz

1976	Nina Bawden	The Peppermint Pig	Gollancz

1975	Winifred Cawley	Gran at Coalgate	Oxford

1974	Barbara Willard	The Iron Lily	Longman

1973	Richard Adams	Watership Down	Rex Collings

1972	Gillian Avery	A Likely Lad	Collins

1971	John Christopher	The Guardians	Hamish Hamilton

1970	K. M. Peyton	The Flambards trilogy (1967–1969)	Oxford

1969	Joan Aiken	The Whispering Mountain	Jonathan Cape

1968	Alan Garner	The Owl Service	Collins

1967	Leon Garfield	Devil-in-the-Fog	Constable

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Piers Torday won the 2014 Guardian Prize for The Dark Wild from Quercus Publishing.

final_sentence: Piers Torday won the 2014 Guardian Prize for The Dark Wild from Quercus Publishing.