Guardian First Book Award

The Guardian First Book Award was a literary prize presented by The Guardian newspaper, established in 1999 and discontinued in 2016. The award annually recognized one book by a new writer, with no genre restrictions, and involved reading groups in the judging process. The prize was worth £10,000 to the winner and was open to titles published in English in the UK within the calendar year. The first winner of the award was Philip Gourevitch for his book "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families", a non-fiction account of the Rwandan genocide.learn more on wikipedia