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The W. H. Heinemann Award is an award established byWilliam Heinemann who bequeathed funds to theRoyal Society of Literature to establish a literary prize, given from 1945 to 2003.^[1]

• 1945A Prospect of Flowers, botanical reminiscences byAndrew Young, poet and vicar of Stonegate in Sussex
• 1946The Garden byVita Sackville-West
• 1947Letters to Malaya byMartyn Skinner
• 1948Selected Poems byJohn Betjeman
• 1951Gormenghast andThe Glassblowers byMervyn Peake
• 1952The Cruel Sea byNicholas Monsarrat
• 1953Edwin Muir
• 1954The Ermine: poems, 1942–1952 byRuth Pitter (joint winner)
• 1954The Go-Between byL.P. Hartley (joint winner)
• 1955Song at the Year's Turning byR. S. Thomas
• 1956Roman Mornings byJames Lees-Milne
• 1958The Chequer'd Shade byJohn Press
• 1959The Devil's Advocate byMorris West
• 1960Venice byJan Morris
• 1961The Masks of Love byVernon Scannell
• 1962Curmantle byChristopher Fry
• 1962The Destruction of Lord Raglan byChristopher Hibbert
• 1963Mrs. Browning: A Poet's Work and Its Setting byAlethea Hayter
• 1964The Marsh Arabs byWilfred Thesiger
• 1965Journey from Obscurity: Wildred Owen, 1893-1919 byHarold Owen
• 1966Wide Sargasso Sea byJean Rhys
• 1967Charlotte Bronte: The Evolution of Genius byWinifred Gérin
• 1968George Eliot: A Biography byGordon S. Haight
• 1969Sir William Hamilton: Envoy Extraordinary by Brian Fothergill
• 1969V. S. Pritchett
• 1970Britain and Her Army byCorelli Barnett
• 1971Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica byDorothy Carrington
• 1972Mercian Hymns byGeoffrey Hill
• 1973The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith byThomas Keneally
• 1974Mooncranker's Gift byBarry Unsworth
• 1974Eclipse by Nicholas Wollaston
• 1975William Wilberforce byRobin Furneaux
• 1976Angels at the Ritz byWilliam Trevor
• 1978The First Fabians byNorman Ian MacKenzie andJeanne MacKenzie
• 1979Live Bait and Other Stories byFrank Tuohy
• 1979Beckford of Fonthill by Brian Fothergill
• 1980Moortown byTed Hughes
• 1981Old Glory: An American Voyage byJonathan Raban
• 1983Fortunate Traveller byDerek Walcott
• 1984T.S. Eliot: A Life byPeter Ackroyd (joint winner)
• 1984Eleni byNicholas Gage (joint winner)
• 1985Secrets of a Woman's Heart: Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1920–69 byHilary Spurling
• 1986The Blind Watchmaker byRichard Dawkins
• 1988The Russian Album byMichael Ignatieff
• 1989Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography byMargaret Forster
• 1990Short Afternoons byKit Wright
• 1991Ford Maddox Ford byAlan Judd
• 1994The Handless Maiden byVicki Feaver
• 1995Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer byPatrick French (joint winner)
• 1995Paul Durcan (joint winner)
• 1996The Shadow of Hiroshima and Other Film/Poems byTony Harrison
• 1997Victor Hugo byGraham Robb
• 1998Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804–1834 byRichard Holmes
• 2001Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia byCatherine Merridale
• 2002Charles Darwin: The Power of Place byJanet Browne
• 2003Primo Levi byIan Thomson
• 2004Power and Glory byAdam Nicolson

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