The Guardian First Book Award was established in 1999 as a replacement for the previous Guardian Fiction Prize. Organised by The Guardian newespaper it is intended "to reward the finest new literary talent with a £10,000 prize for an author's first book". The award is run in conjunction with the Waterstone chain of book stores as judging is carried out both by a "celebrity panel" and by members of reading groups run by Waterstone.

Past Winners

• 1999 - Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families
• 2000 - Zadie Smith White Teeth
• 2001 - Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigan
• 2002 - Jonathan Safran Foer Everything Is Illuminated
• 2003 - Robert MacFarlane Mountains of the Mind
• 2004 - Armand Marie Leroi Mutants: On the Form
• 2005 - Alexander Master Stuart: A Life Backwards
• 2006 - Yiyun Li A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

References

http://books.guardian.co.uk/fba2005/