ShelfEvidentCarnegie Medal for Writing — Complete Winners List
87 years of winners · CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) · Since 1936 · ← Back to award page
| 2026 | Beth O'Brien | HarperCollins Children's Books | |
| 2025 | Margaret McDonald | Faber & Faber | |
| 2024 | Joseph Coelho | Otter-Barry Books | |
| 2023 | Manon Steffan Ros | Firefly Press | |
| 2022 | Katya Balen | Bloomsbury Children's Books | |
| 2021 | Jason Reynolds | Knights Of | |
| 2020 | Anthony McGowan | Barrington Stoke | |
| 2019 | Elizabeth Acevedo | HarperTeen | |
| 2018 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Usborne Publishing | |
| 2017 | Ruta Sepetys | Penguin Books | |
| 2016 | Sarah Crossan | Bloomsbury Children's Books | |
| 2015 | Tanya Landman | Walker Books | |
| 2014 | Kevin Brooks | Puffin Books | |
| 2013 | Sally Gardner | Hot Key Books | |
| 2012 | Patrick Ness | Walker Books | |
| 2011 | Patrick Ness | Walker Books | |
| 2010 | Neil Gaiman | HarperCollins | |
| 2009 | Siobhan Dowd | David Fickling Books | |
| 2008 | Philip Reeve | Scholastic | |
| 2007 | Meg Rosoff | Penguin Books | |
| 2005 | Mal Peet | — | |
| 2004 | Frank Cottrell Boyce | — | |
| 2003 | Jennifer Donnelly | — | |
| 2002 | Sharon Creech | — | |
| 2001 | Terry Pratchett | — | |
| 2000 | Beverley Naidoo | — | |
| 1999 | Aidan Chambers | — | |
| 1998 | David Almond | — | |
| 1997 | Tim Bowler | — | |
| 1996 | Melvin Burgess | — | |
| 1995 | Philip Pullman | — | |
| 1994 | Theresa Breslin | — | |
| 1993 | Robert Swindells | — | |
| 1992 | Anne Fine | — | |
| 1991 | Berlie Doherty | — | |
| 1990 | Gillian Cross | — | |
| 1989 | Anne Fine | — | |
| 1988 | Geraldine McCaughrean | — | |
| 1987 | Susan Price | — | |
| 1986 | Berlie Doherty | — | |
| 1985 | Kevin Crossley-Holland | — | |
| 1984 | Margaret Mahy | — | |
| 1983 | Jan Mark | — | |
| 1982 | Margaret Mahy | — | |
| 1981 | Robert Westall | — | |
| 1980 | Peter Dickinson | — | |
| 1979 | Peter Dickinson | — | |
| 1978 | David Rees | — | |
| 1977 | Gene Kemp | — | |
| 1976 | Jan Mark | — | |
| 1975 | Robert Westall | — | |
| 1974 | Mollie Hunter | — | |
| 1973 | Penelope Lively | — | |
| 1972 | Richard Adams | — | |
| 1971 | Ivan Southall | — | |
| 1970 | Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen | — | |
| 1969 | K. M. Peyton | — | |
| 1968 | Rosemary Harris | — | |
| 1967 | Alan Garner | — | |
| 1965 | Philip Turner | — | |
| 1964 | Sheena Porter | — | |
| 1963 | Hester Burton | — | |
| 1962 | Pauline Clarke | — | |
| 1961 | Lucy M. Boston | — | |
| 1960 | Ian Wolfran Cornwall | — | |
| 1959 | Rosemary Sutcliff | — | |
| 1958 | Philippa Pearce | — | |
| 1957 | William Mayne | — | |
| 1956 | C. S. Lewis | — | |
| 1955 | Eleanor Farjeon | — | |
| 1954 | Ronald Welch | — | |
| 1953 | Edward Osmond | — | |
| 1952 | Mary Norton | — | |
| 1951 | Cynthia Harnett | — | |
| 1950 | Elfrida Vipont | — | |
| 1949 | Agnes Allen | — | |
| 1948 | Richard Armstrong | — | |
| 1947 | Walter de la Mare | — | |
| 1946 | Elizabeth Goudge | — | |
| 1944 | Eric Linklater | — | |
| 1942 | BB | — | |
| 1941 | Mary Treadgold | — | |
| 1940 | Kitty Barne | — | |
| 1939 | Eleanor Doorly | — | |
| 1938 | Noel Streatfeild | — | |
| 1937 | Eve Garnett | — | |
| 1936 | Arthur Ransome | — |
