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Hodder and Stoughton Novel Competition
Subcategory of Awards International Awards
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History

This international award was offered by the publishers for novelists worldwide. The winners and placegetters were awarded a generous monetary prize as well as publication of their work. 

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1915

winner (Australasian Section) y separately published work icon The Pioneers Katharine Susannah Prichard , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1915 Z547525 1915 single work novel historical fiction

'This endearing 19th-century family saga follows the lives, loves and losses of one pioneering family and two escaped convicts as they open up the land in Victoria, Australia. This classic Australian story, which won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia, commands an important place in the canon of Australian literature' (Monsoon Books edition).

Year: 1914

winner y separately published work icon A Tail of Gold David Hennessey , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1914 Z498206 1914 single work novel
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