Ruth Hadden Memorial Award

The Ruth Hadden Memorial Award is a former award for the best first novel published in Britain, which was administered by the Booktrust. It was awarded in the early 1990s and has now been discontinued.[1]

The award was unusual in that the prize was awarded to a completed manuscript before acceptance by a publisher, and the prize money (in 1994, £2000) went to the publishers of the novel to spend on promoting it.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, Booktrust (accessed 18 February 2009)
  2. ^ Andrew Motion (14 February 1993). Books (Last Word): Egos and quids. The Observer, p. 61
  3. ^ Louisa Young (28 August 1994). Love thy neighbour; Books. The Sunday Times, p. 8
  4. ^ David Robson (8 November 1992). Politics, prickles and perversity. David Robson considers a political Julian Barnes and other new fiction. The Sunday Telegraph, p. 80