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
References
Awards up to 1988: Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd