In a ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel, playwright Sir Tom Stoppard presented Linda Grant with the South Bank Show Award for Literature for her Booker-shortlisted novel, The Clothes on their Backs.
The South Bank Show Awards will be broadcast on ITV1 on 28th January. For the full winners' list, see www.itv.com.
The Clothes on their Backswas also longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Read an extract from The Clothes on Their Backs at Virago.co.uk.