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 +Hawthornden Prize winnersYearAuthorTitleRef.19191920 Poems New and Old1921 1922 1923 Lady into Fox1924 1925 Juno and the Paycock1926 1927 Tarka the Otter1928 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man1929 1930 1931 Without My Cloak1932 The Fountain1933 Collected Poems1934 Lost Horizon1935 I, Claudius1936 Edmund Campion1937 1938 In Parenthesis1939 Penthesperon1940 London Fabric1941 1942 England Is My Village1943 and The Iron Laurel1944 Letters to Malaya1958 1960 1961 Lupercal1962 1963 1964 Mr Stone and the Knights Companion1965 1966 1967 Early Renaissance1968 King Log1969 Monk Dawson1974 Awakenings1975 Changing Places1976 Falstaff1977 In Patagonia1978 Walter1979 Kindergarten1980 Arcadia1981 St. Kilda's Parliament1982 Sour Sweet1983 Allegro Postillions1988 Behind the Wall: A Journey through China1989 Talking Heads1990 Short Afternoons1991 1992 Of Love and Asthma1993 1994 In the Place of Fallen Leaves1995 Collected Poems1996 1997 1998 Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa1999Stalingrad2000 2001 Hey Yeah Right Get a Life2002 2003 2004 John Clare: A Biography2005 2006 Stuart: A Life Backwards2007 Carry Me Down2008 Darkmans2009 2010 2011 What to Look for in Winter2012 There But For The2013 Out There"Past event: Poetry reading and conversation, with Jamie McKendrick" , Oxford Brookes University.2014 Dear Boy2015 Nora Webster2016 2017 Mothering Sunday2018 Mr Lear2019 I Am Dynamite!2020 Reckless Paper Birds2022 New and Selected Poems2023 An Olive Grove in Ends2024 Orbital2025 Lublin
See also List of British literary awards
References
External links List of winners Hawthornden Foundation