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Hawthornden Prize

British literary award

Summary

British literary award

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nameHawthornden Prize
awarded_for"imaginative literature" (poetry or prose) by British, Irish or British-based authors
year
website

The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award given 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. There have been several gap years without a recipient (1945–57, 1959, 1966, 1971–73, and 1984–87).

The Hawthornden Prize was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender. It, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, are Britain's oldest literary awards.

The award offered £100 in 1936. It had increased to £2,000 by 1995, and by 2017 it was worth £15,000. It was formerly administered by the Hawthornden Trust set up by Warrender, and sponsored by the private trust of Drue Heinz. It is currently administered by Hawthornden Foundation, established by Drue Heinz.

Awards

YearAuthorTitleRef.
1919**
1920Poems New and Old
1921**
1922**first=Kevinlast=Myersdate=26 May 2002title=This Constant Stream of English Lifenewspaper=The Telegraphurl=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3577091/This-constant-stream-of-English-life.htmlurl-status=liveaccess-date=26 August 2013archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122110713/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3577091/This-constant-stream-of-English-life.htmlarchive-date=22 January 2015}}
1923Lady into Fox
1924**
1925Juno and the Paycock
1926**
1927Tarka the Otter
1928Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Mantitle=Awards & Prizesurl=http://www.faber.co.uk/about/awards-prizes-list/url-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808052533/http://www.faber.co.uk/about/awards-prizes-list/archive-date=8 August 2014access-date=25 July 2014website=Faber & Faber}}
1929**
1930**
1931Without My Cloak
1932The Fountain
1933Collected Poems
1934Lost Horizon
1935I, Claudius
1936Edmund Campion
1937**
1938In Parenthesis
1939Penthesperon
1940London Fabric
1941**
1942England Is My Village
1943* and The Iron Laurel*
1944Letters to Malaya
1958* ''
1960**
1961Lupercal
1962**
1963**
1964Mr Stone and the Knights Companion
1965**
1966**
1967Early Renaissance
1968King Log
1969Monk Dawson
1974Awakenings
1975Changing Places
1976Falstaff
1977In Patagonia
1978Walter
1979Kindergarten
1980Arcadia
1981St. Kilda's Parliament
1982Sour Sweet
1983Allegro Postillions
1988Behind the Wall: A Journey through China
1989Talking Heads
1990Short Afternoons
1991**
1992Of Love and Asthma
1993**
1994In the Place of Fallen Leaves
1995Collected Poems
1996**
1997**
1998Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa
1999Stalingrad
2000**
2001Hey Yeah Right Get a Life
2002**
2003**
2004John Clare: A Biography
2005**
2006Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007Carry Me Down
2008Darkmans
2009**
2010**
2011What to Look for in Winter
2012There But For The
2013Out There
2014Dear Boy
2015Nora Webster
2016**
2017Mothering Sunday
2018Mr Lear
2019I Am Dynamite!
2020Reckless Paper Birds
2022New and Selected Poems
2023An Olive Grove in Ends
2024Orbital
2025Lublin

References

References

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  2. Moseley, Merritt. "The Hawthornden Prize". University of North Carolina.
  3. Shaffer, Brian W.. (2008). "A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945 – 2000". John Wiley & Sons.
  4. (1 June 1961). "The Hawthornden Prize". [[The Glasgow Herald]].
  5. (26 June 1936). "Waugh's 'Campion' and Campion Hall". Catholic Herald.
  6. (January 1995). "Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature". Merriam-Webster.
  7. (14 July 2017). "Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday wins fiction's most secretive prize". The Guardian.
  8. "Miss A H Warrender Trust for Hawthornden Prize". Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.
  9. "Hawthornden Prize".
  10. Myers, Kevin. (26 May 2002). "This Constant Stream of English Life". The Telegraph.
  11. "Awards & Prizes".
  12. (1931-06-18). "WINS HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE.; Captain Dennis Was First Thought to Be a Woman.". [[The New York Times]].
  13. Doyle, Martin. (2022-06-30). "Michael Longley wins €250,000 Feltrinelli Poetry Prize and Ian Duhig wins Hawthornden Prize". [[The Irish Times]].
  14. (19 July 2012). "Award: The Hawthornden Prize for Literature". The Times.
  15. (17 October 2013). "Award winning poet Jamie McKendrick among 'Creative Minds' to come to Birmingham".
  16. [http://www.brookes.ac.uk/hss-events/Poetry-reading "Past event: Poetry reading and conversation, with Jamie McKendrick"] {{Webarchive. link. (27 October 2014, Oxford Brookes University.)
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  18. (23 July 2015). "Colm Tóibín scoops Hawthornden Literature Prize". RTÉ News.
  19. Cowdrey, Katherine. (6 July 2016). "Tessa Hadley wins Hawthornden Prize". The Bookseller.
  20. (2017-07-13). ""Festttag" für Graham Swift: Heute Abend erhält er den Hawthornden Prize 2017".
  21. Lee, Hermione. (2017-07-14). "Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday wins fiction's most secretive prize". [[The Guardian]].
  22. (2018-09-12). "Jenny Uglow wins the Hawthornden Prize for Literature 2018".
  23. (2019-07-11). "Sue Prideaux wins the 2019 Hawthornden Prize for Literature".
  24. Wilkinson, Kate. (24 July 2020). "John McCullough wins the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature".
  25. (2022-06-22). "Ian Duhig wins the Hawthornden Prize for Literature".
  26. (3 August 2023). "Moses McKenzie wins prestigious Hawthornden Prize for Literature". The Ampersand Agency.
  27. "The 2024 Hawthornden Prize for Literature has been awarded to Samantha Harvey for ''Orbital''". Hawthornden Foundation.
  28. (12 November 2024). "'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize". NPR.
  29. (2025). "The 2025 Hawthornden Prize for Literature has been awarded to Manya Wilkinson for LUBLIN". And Other Stories.
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