Hawthornden Prize

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Hawthornden Prize
Awarded forFor "imaginative literature" (poetry or prose) by British, Irish or British-based authors.
First awarded1919;104 years ago (1919)
Website https://www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-prize

The Hawthornden Prize, one of Britain's oldest literary awards, was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender. [1] This £15,000 prize is awarded annually to a British, Irish or British-based author for a work of "imaginative literature" – including poetry, novels, history, biography and creative non-fiction – published in the previous calendar year. The prize is for a book in English, not for a translation. Previous winners of the prize are excluded from the shortlist. Unlike other major literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize does not solicit submissions. [2] There have been several gap years without a recipient (1945–57, 1959, 1966, 1971–73, and 1984–87). [3]

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The Hawthornden Prize, along with the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, are Britain's oldest literary awards. [4] It offered £100 in 1936, in 1995 was worth £2,000 and by 2017 had increased to £15,000. [5] [6] [7] It was formerly administered by the Hawthornden Trust set up by Warrender, [8] and sponsored by the private trust of Drue Heinz. [7] It is currently administered by Hawthornden Foundation, established by Drue Heinz. [2]

Awards

Hawthornden Prize winners [9]
YearAuthorTitleRef.
1919 Edward Shanks The Queen of China
1920 John Freeman Poems New and Old
1921 Romer Wilson The Death of Society
1922 Edmund Blunden The Shepherd [10]
1923 David Garnett Lady into Fox
1924 Ralph Hale Mottram The Spanish Farm
1925 Seán O'Casey Juno and the Paycock [10]
1926 Vita Sackville-West The Land [10]
1927 Henry Williamson Tarka the Otter
1928 Siegfried Sassoon Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [10] [11]
1929 Lord David Cecil The Stricken Deer [10]
1930 Geoffrey Dennis The End of the World [12]
1931 Kate O'Brien Without My Cloak
1932 Charles Morgan The Fountain
1933 Vita Sackville-West Collected Poems
1934 James Hilton Lost Horizon
1935 Robert Graves I, Claudius [10]
1936 Evelyn Waugh Edmund Campion [10]
1937 Ruth Pitter A Trophy of Arms
1938 David Jones In Parenthesis
1939 Christopher Hassall Penthesperon
1940 James Pope-Hennessy London Fabric
1941 Graham Greene The Power and the Glory
1942 John Llewellyn Rhys England Is My Village
1943 Sidney Keyes The Cruel Solstice and The Iron Laurel
1944 Martyn Skinner Letters to Malaya
1958 Dom Moraes A Beginning
1960 Alan Sillitoe The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1961 Ted Hughes Lupercal
1962 Robert Shaw The Sun Doctor
1963 Alistair Horne The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
1964 V. S. Naipaul Mr Stone and the Knights Companion [10]
1965 William Trevor The Old Boys [10]
1966 Michael Frayn The Russian Interpreter
1967 Michael Levey Early Renaissance
1968 Geoffrey Hill King Log
1969 Piers Paul Read Monk Dawson
1974 Oliver Sacks Awakenings
1975 David Lodge Changing Places
1976 Robert Nye Falstaff
1977 Bruce Chatwin In Patagonia [10]
1978 David Cook Walter
1979 P. S. Rushforth Kindergarten
1980 Christopher Reid Arcadia
1981 Douglas Dunn St. Kilda's Parliament
1982 Timothy Mo Sour Sweet
1983 Jonathan Keates Allegro Postillions
1988 Colin Thubron Behind the Wall: A Journey through China
1989 Alan Bennett Talking Heads
1990 Kit Wright Short Afternoons
1991 Claire Tomalin The Invisible Woman
1992 Ferdinand Mount Of Love and Asthma
1993 Andrew Barrow The Tap Dancer
1994 Tim Pears In the Place of Fallen Leaves
1995 James Michie Collected Poems
1996 Hilary Mantel An Experiment in Love
1997 John Lanchester The Debt to Pleasure
1998 Charles Nicholl Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa
1999 Antony Beevor Stalingrad [10]
2000 Michael Longley The Weather in Japan [13]
2001 Helen Simpson Hey Yeah Right Get a Life
2002 Eamon Duffy The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village [10]
2003 William Fiennes The Snow Geese
2004 Jonathan Bate John Clare: A Biography
2005 Justin Cartwright The Promise of Happiness
2006 Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007 M. J. Hyland Carry Me Down
2008 Nicola Barker Darkmans
2009 Patrick French The World Is What It Is
2010 Alice Oswald A Sleepwalk on the Severn
2011 Candia McWilliam What to Look for in Winter
2012 Ali Smith There But For The [14]
2013 Jamie McKendrick Out There [15] [16]
2014 Emily Berry Dear Boy [17] [11]
2015 Colm Tóibín Nora Webster [18]
2016 Tessa Hadley The Past [19]
2017 Graham Swift Mothering Sunday [20] [21]
2018 Jenny Uglow Mr Lear [22]
2019 Sue Prideaux I Am Dynamite! [23]
2020 John McCulloughReckless Paper Birds [24]
2022 Ian Duhig New and Selected Poems [25]
2023 Moses McKenzieAn Olive Grove in Ends [26]

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