Hawthornden Prize

Hawthornden Prize
Awarded for"imaginative literature" (poetry or prose) by British, Irish or British-based authors
First award1919 (1919)
Websitewww.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-prize

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.[1] There have been several gap years without a recipient (1945–57, 1959, 1966, 1971–73, and 1984–87).[2]

The Hawthornden Prize was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender. It, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, are Britain's oldest literary awards.[3][4]

The award offered £100 in 1936. It had increased to £2,000 by 1995, and by 2017 it was worth £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.[1]

Awards

Hawthornden Prize winners[9]
Year Author Title Ref.
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 McCullough Reckless Paper Birds [24]
2022 Ian Duhig New and Selected Poems [25]
2023 Moses McKenzie An Olive Grove in Ends [26]
2024 Samantha Harvey Orbital [27][28]
2025 Manya Wilkinson Lublin [29]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Hawthornden Prize". Hawthornden Foundation. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  2. ↑ Moseley, Merritt. "The Hawthornden Prize". University of North Carolina. Archived from the original on 9 April 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
  3. ↑ Shaffer, Brian W. (2008). A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945 – 2000. John Wiley & Sons. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-4051-5616-5. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  4. ↑ "The Hawthornden Prize". The Glasgow Herald. 1 June 1961. p. 23. Archived from the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  5. ↑ "Waugh's 'Campion' and Campion Hall". Catholic Herald. 26 June 1936. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  6. ↑ Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Merriam-Webster. January 1995. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  7. 1 2 "Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday wins fiction's most secretive prize". The Guardian. 14 July 2017. Archived from the original on 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Miss A H Warrender Trust for Hawthornden Prize". Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  9. ↑ "Hawthornden Prize". Minnesota State University. Archived from the original on 14 December 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Myers, Kevin (26 May 2002). "This Constant Stream of English Life". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  11. 1 2 "Awards & Prizes". Faber & Faber. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  12. ↑ "WINS HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE.; Captain Dennis Was First Thought to Be a Woman". The New York Times. 18 June 1931. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  13. ↑ Doyle, Martin (30 June 2022). "Michael Longley wins €250,000 Feltrinelli Poetry Prize and Ian Duhig wins Hawthornden Prize". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 23 December 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  14. ↑ "Award: The Hawthornden Prize for Literature". The Times. 19 July 2012. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  15. ↑ "Award winning poet Jamie McKendrick among 'Creative Minds' to come to Birmingham". University of Birmingham. 17 October 2013. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  16. ↑ "Past event: Poetry reading and conversation, with Jamie McKendrick" Archived 27 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Oxford Brookes University.
  17. ↑ "hawthornden prize". B O D Y Literature. 27 October 2014. Archived from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  18. ↑ "Colm Tóibín scoops Hawthornden Literature Prize". RTÉ News. 23 July 2015. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  19. ↑ Cowdrey, Katherine (6 July 2016). "Tessa Hadley wins Hawthornden Prize". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  20. ↑ ""Festttag" für Graham Swift: Heute Abend erhält er den Hawthornden Prize 2017". Buchmarkt (in German). 13 July 2017. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  21. ↑ Lee, Hermione (14 July 2017). "Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday wins fiction's most secretive prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 14 July 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  22. ↑ "Jenny Uglow wins the Hawthornden Prize for Literature 2018". Faber. 12 September 2018. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  23. ↑ "Sue Prideaux wins the 2019 Hawthornden Prize for Literature". Faber. 11 July 2019. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  24. ↑ Wilkinson, Kate (24 July 2020). "John McCullough wins the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature". Penned in the Margins. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  25. ↑ "Ian Duhig wins the Hawthornden Prize for Literature". CAP Arts Centre. 22 June 2022. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  26. ↑ "Moses McKenzie wins prestigious Hawthornden Prize for Literature". The Ampersand Agency. 3 August 2023.
  27. ↑ "The 2024 Hawthornden Prize for Literature has been awarded to Samantha Harvey for Orbital". Hawthornden Foundation.
  28. ↑ Pineda, Dhanika (12 November 2024). "'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize". NPR.
  29. ↑ "The 2025 Hawthornden Prize for Literature has been awarded to Manya Wilkinson for LUBLIN". And Other Stories. 2025. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
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