Hawthornden Prize
The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award that was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender.[1] It is funded by a trust bequeathed by her.[2] Authors under the age of 41[3] are awarded on the quality of their "imaginative literature" which can be written in either poetry or prose.[4] The Hawthornden Committee awards the Prize annually for a work published in the previous twelve months. There have been several gap years without a recipient (1984–87, 1971–73, 1966, 1959, 1945–57).[5]
Unlike other major literary awards, the Hawthornden does not solicit submissions. It is also catholic in its coverage of the literary, welcoming fiction, travel writing, artistic and historical works.[6]
Monetarily, the Hawthornden Prize is modest: it offered £100 in 1936, and in 1995 was worth £2000.[7][8]
Awards
- 2015 Colm Tóibín: Nora Webster[9]
- 2014 Emily Berry: Dear Boy[10]
- 2013 Jamie McKendrick: Out There[11][12]
- 2012 Ali Smith: There But For The[13]
- 2011 Candia McWilliam: What to Look for in Winter
- 2010 Alice Oswald: A Sleepwalk on the Severn
- 2009 Patrick French: The World Is What It Is
- 2008 Nicola Barker: Darkmans
- 2007 M. J. Hyland: Carry Me Down
- 2006 Alexander Masters: Stuart: A Life Backwards
- 2005 Justin Cartwright: The Promise of Happiness
- 2004 Jonathan Bate: John Clare: A Biography
- 2003 William Fiennes: The Snow Geese
- 2002 Eamon Duffy: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village[6]
- 2001 Helen Simpson: Hey Yeah Right Get a Life
- 2000 Michael Longley: The Weather in Japan
- 1999 Antony Beevor: Stalingrad[6]
- 1998 Charles Nicholl: Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa
- 1997 John Lanchester: The Debt to Pleasure
- 1996 Hilary Mantel: An Experiment in Love
- 1995 James Michie: Collected Poems
- 1994 Tim Pears: In the Place of Fallen Leaves
- 1993 Andrew Barrow: The Tap Dancer
- 1992 Ferdinand Mount: Of Love and Asthma
- 1991 Claire Tomalin: The Invisible Woman
- 1990 Kit Wright: Short Afternoons
- 1989 Alan Bennett: Talking Heads
- 1988 Colin Thubron: Behind the Wall: A Journey through China
- 1983 Jonathan Keates: Allegro Postillions
- 1982 Timothy Mo: Sour Sweet
- 1981 Douglas Dunn: St. Kilda's Parliament
- 1980 Christopher Reid: Arcadia
- 1979 P. S. Rushforth: Kindergarten
- 1978 David Cook: Walter
- 1977 Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia[6]
- 1976 Robert Nye: Falstaff
- 1975 David Lodge: Changing Places
- 1974 Oliver Sacks: Awakenings
- 1970 Piers Paul Read: Monk Dawson
- 1969 Geoffrey Hill: King Log
- 1968 Michael Levey: Early Renaissance
- 1967 Michael Frayn: The Russian Interpreter
- 1965 William Trevor: The Old Boys[6]
- 1964 V. S. Naipaul: Mr Stone and the Knights Companion[6]
- 1963 Alistair Horne: The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
- 1962 Robert Shaw: The Sun Doctor
- 1961 Ted Hughes: Lupercal
- 1960 Alan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
- 1958 Dom Moraes: A Beginning
- 1944 Martyn Skinner: Letters to Malaya
- 1943 Sidney Keyes: The Cruel Solstice and The Iron Laurel
- 1942 John Llewellyn Rhys: England Is My Village
- 1941 Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
- 1940 James Pope-Hennessy: London Fabric
- 1939 Christopher Hassall: Penthesperon
- 1938 David Jones: In Parenthesis
- 1937 Ruth Pitter: A Trophy of Arms
- 1936 Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion[6]
- 1935 Robert Graves: I, Claudius[6]
- 1934 James Hilton: Lost Horizon
- 1933 Vita Sackville-West: Collected Poems
- 1932 Charles Morgan: The Fountain
- 1931 Kate O'Brien: Without My Cloak
- 1930 Geoffrey Dennis: The End of the World
- 1929 Lord David Cecil: The Stricken Deer[6]
- 1928 Siegfried Sassoon: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man[6]
- 1927 Henry Williamson: Tarka the Otter
- 1926 Vita Sackville-West: The Land[6]
- 1925 Sean O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock[6]
- 1924 Ralph Hale Mottram: The Spanish Farm
- 1923 David Garnett: Lady into Fox
- 1922 Edmund Blunden: The Shepherd[6]
- 1921 Romer Wilson: The Death of Society
- 1920 John Freeman: Poems New and Old
- 1919 Edward Shanks: The Queen of China
See also
References
- ↑ "The Hawthornden Prize". The Glasgow Herald. 1 June 1961. p. 23. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ↑ "Miss A H Warrender Trust for Hawthornden Prize". Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ↑ "Literary London - Woman Donor - Hawthornden Prize". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 June 1934.
- ↑ "Hawthornden Prize". The Montreal Gazette. 4 August 1944. p. 7. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ↑ Moseley, Merritt. "The Hawthornden Prize". University of North Carolina. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kevin Myers (26 May 2002). "This Constant Stream of English Life". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ↑ "Waugh's 'Campion' and Campion Hall". Catholic Herald. 26 June 1936. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ↑ Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia Of Literature. Merriam-Webster. January 1995. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ↑ http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2015/0723/716571-colm-toibin-wins-hawthornden-prize/
- ↑ http://www.faber.co.uk/about/awards-prizes-list/
- ↑ "Past event: Poetry reading and conversation, with Jamie McKendrick", Oxford Brookes University.
- ↑ "Award winning poet Jamie McKendrick among 'Creative Minds' to come to Birmingham", University of Birmingham, 17 October 2013.
- ↑ "Award: The Hawthornden Prize for Literature". The Times. 19 July 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2013.