Gwendoline Riley

Awards & Honours

Awards Won

Honours

Rankings

Riley's novels have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Rathbones Folio Prize. In 2018, the TLS named her one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

AwardsRiley has won four major literary awards: the Betty Trask Award for her debut Cold Water (2002), the Somerset Maugham Award (2008), the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for First Love (2017), and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction (2026).

Honours & Distinctions

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

TLS Best British and Irish Novelists

Times Literary Supplement·2018

Named one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.

Rankings & Lists

#Top 20

Best British and Irish Novelists Working Today

Times Literary Supplement·2018