Career Chronology

2005

  • Guest Speaker:
    • Bath Literature Festival, Bath, Great Britain
    • Kingston Readers’ Festival, Kingston, Great Britain
    • Borders, Brighton, Great Britain
    • Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Guest of Honour: World Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow, Great Britain
  • Fiction:
    • The Prestige re-published by Gollancz (UK)
    • The Quiet Woman re-published by Cosmos (USA)
    • The Separation published by Old Earth Books (USA)

2004

  • Guest Speaker:
    • Bristol, Great Britain
    • Nantes, France
  • Guest of Honour:
    • Blackpool, Great Britain
    • Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany
  • Member of Competition Jury: Catalunya International Fantasy Film Festival, Sitges, Catalonia, Spain
  • Tutor: Arvon Foundation writers’ course, Devon, Great Britain
  • Fiction: The Separation re-published by Gollancz (UK)

2003

  • Guest Speaker: Birmingham, Great Britain
  • Awards:
    • BSFA Award — The Separation
    • Arthur C. Clarke Award — The Separation
  • Award Nomination: Sidewise Award for Alternate History — The Separation

2002

  • Fiction: The Separation published by Scribner (UK)
  • Guest Speaker: Nantes, France; Sandwell, Great Britain

2001

  • Guest Speaker:
    • Galway, Ireland
    • Nantes, France
    • The Hague, Netherlands
  • Awards:
    • Prix Utopia – Lifetime Achievement Award (France)
    • Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire pour La nouvelle étrangère – Retour au foyer (The Discharge)

2000

  • Guest Speaker:
    • Venice, Italy
    • Nantes, France
    • Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Guest of Honour: Birmingham, Great Britain

1999

  • Fiction:
    • The Dream Archipelago published by Earthlight, Simon & Schuster (UK)
    • Christopher Priest Omnibus 1 (The Space Machine and A Dream of Wessex) published by Earthlight, Simon & Schuster (UK)
    • Christopher Priest Omnibus 2 (Inverted World and Fugue For a Darkening Island) published by Earthlight, Simon & Schuster (UK)
  • Award: BSFA Award — The Extremes
  • Award Nomination: Arthur C. Clarke Award – The Extremes
  • Guest Speaker
    • Poitiers, France
    • The Hague, Netherlands

1998

  • Fiction: The Extremes published by Simon & Schuster (UK), St Martin’s Press (US).
  • Guest Speaker: Rochester Literary Festival

1997

  • Guest of Honour: Exeter, Great Britain
  • Guest Speaker: Edinburgh Book Festival, Great Britain

1996

  • Fiction: The Glamour [revised edition] published by Simon & Schuster (UK)
  • Award: World Fantasy Award — The Prestige
  • Award Nominations:
    • Arthur C. Clarke Award — The Prestige
    • BSFA Award — The Prestige
  • Guest of Honour:
    • London, Great Britain
    • Leipzig, Germany
  • Guest Speaker: Cascais, Portugal

1995

  • Fiction: The Prestige, Simon & Schuster (UK), St Martin’s Press (US).
  • Award: James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction — The Prestige
  • Award Nomination: Hugo Award for Best Non-fiction — The Book On The Edge Of Forever
  • Guest of Honour:
    • Geraardsbergen, Belgium
    • Freiburg, Germany
    • The Hague, Netherlands

1994

  • Non-fiction (criticism): The Book On The Edge Of Forever, Fantagraphics Books (US)

1993

  • Radio Play: The Glamour, BBC Radio 4
  • Guest Speaker: Brighton Arts Festival

1990

  • Fiction: The Quiet Woman, Bloomsbury (UK)

1989

  • Fiction: The Affirmation re-published as Victor Gollancz SF Classic
  • Guest Speaker: Dorset Literature Festival

1988

  • Fiction: The Space Machine re-published as Victor Gollancz SF Classic
  • Award: Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign Novel — The Glamour

1987

  • Fiction:
    • Inverted World re-published as Victor Gollancz SF Classic
    • Der Traumarchipel, Luchterhand (Germany)
  • Guest Speaker: British Council Tour, Munich, Germany

1985

  • Guest Speaker: Collogue International de Nice, France
  • Guest of Honour: Stockholm, Sweden

1984

  • Fiction: The Glamour, Jonathan Cape (UK), Doubleday & Company (US).
  • Television Play: “The Watched”, Thames Television
  • Guest of Honour:
    • Nancy, France
    • Brighton, Great Britain

1983

  • Promotion: “Best of Young British Novelists”

Best of Young British Novelists promo photoChris Priest was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists, a publicity event sponsored by the Book Marketing Council, but usually attributed (incorrectly) to Granta magazine. The photograph is copyright Camera Press and was taken by Snowdon. A nervous CP is visible close to the middle of the centre row.

The names: Top row, l-r: William Boyd, Adam Mars-Jones, Julian Barnes, Pat Barker, Clive Sinclair. Centre row, l-r: Buchi Emecheta, A. N. Wilson, Ursula Bentley, CP, Maggie Gee, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Front row, l-r: Shiva Naipaul, Kazuo Ishiguro, Philip Norman, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Lisa St-Aubin de Téran. Two other authors who were part of the promotion, not present when the photograph was taken, were Alan Judd and Salman Rushdie.

Of the twenty, at least three were not young: CP, Barker, Bentley. At least four were not British: Emecheta (Nigerian), Ishiguro (Japanese), Naipaul (Trinidadian), Rushdie (Indian). At least three were not novelists: Mars-Jones, Norman, Sinclair. At least one acted like a complete twat all the way through (Martin Amis). Since the promotion, Shiva Naipaul and Ursula Bentley have died; Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, Pat Barker, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie have won the Booker Prize; Salman Rushdie has been knighted for services to literature; CP and Martin Amis have done none of these.

1982

  • Award: Ditmar Award for Best International Novel — The Affirmation
  • Guest Speaker: Adelaide Festival, Writers’ Week, Australia

1981

  • Fiction:
    • The Affirmation, Faber & Faber (UK), Charles Scribner’s Sons (US)
    • L’Archipel Du Rève, Jean-Claude Lattès (France)
  • Television Play: “Return to the Labyrinth”, HTV
  • Guest of Honour: Rotterdam, Netherlands

1980

  • Award Nomination: Hugo Award for Best Novelette — Palely Loitering
  • Guest Speaker: Lancaster Literary Festival, Great Britain

1979

  • Fiction:
    • An Infinite Summer, Faber & Faber (UK), Charles Scribner’s Sons (US)
    • Le Livre D’Or De La Science Fiction — Christopher Priest, Presses-Pocket (France)
    • Stars of Albion (anthology — edited with Robert Holdstock), Pan Books (UK)
  • Radio Reading: The Space Machine, BBC Radio 4, ‘Storytime’ (10 parts)
  • Award: BSFA Award for Best Short Story — “Palely Loitering”
  • Award Nomination: Hugo Award for Best Novella — The Watched
  • Guest of Honour:
    • Metz, France
    • Birmingham, Great Britain
    • Eindhoven, Holland

1978

  • Fiction: Anticipations, Faber & Faber (UK), Charles Scribner’s Sons (US).
  • Guest Speaker: H. G. Wells Society, London, Great Britain

1977

  • Fiction: A Dream Of Wessex, Faber & Faber (UK), Charles Scribner’s Sons (US).
  • Award: Ditmar Award for Best International Novel — The Space Machine
  • Guest Speaker: Newcastle Festival, Great Britain
  • Guest of Honour: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1976

  • Fiction: The Space Machine, Faber & Faber (UK),  Harper & Row (US).
  • Guest of Honour: Metz, France

1975

  • Award Nomination: Hugo Award for Best Novel — Inverted World
  • Guest of Honour: Salon-de-Provence, France

1974

  • Fiction:
    • Inverted World, Faber & Faber (UK), Harper & Row (US)
    • Real-Time World, New English Library (UK)
  • Award: BSFA Award for Best Novel — Inverted World

1972

  • Fiction: Fugue For A Darkening Island, Faber & Faber (UK), Harper & Row (US).
  • Award: John W. Campbell Jr Memorial Award for Outstanding British Novel – Fugue For A Darkening Island

1970

  • Fiction: Indoctrinaire, Faber & Faber (UK). Also published by Harper & Row (US).

1969

  • Guest Speaker: Harrogate International Festival of the Arts

1965 to 1968

  • Selling short stories to:
    • Impulse
    • New Worlds
    • New Writings in SF

1965

  • First short story: “The Run”, Impulse 3