Hawthornden Prize Explained

Hawthornden Prize
Awarded For:For "imaginative literature" (poetry or prose) by British, Irish or British-based authors.

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]

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] !Year!Author!Title!Ref.
1919
1920Poems New and Old
1921
1922[10]
1923Lady into Fox
1924
1925Juno and the Paycock
1926
1927Tarka the Otter
1928Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man[11]
1929
1930[12]
1931Without My Cloak
1932
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[13]
2001Hey Yeah Right Get a Life
2002
2003
2004John Clare: A Biography
2005
2006
2007Carry Me Down
2008Darkmans
2009
2010
2011What to Look for in Winter
2012There But For The[14]
2013Out There[15] [16]
2014Dear Boy[17]
2015Nora Webster[18]
2016[19]
2017Mothering Sunday[20] [21]
2018Mr Lear[22]
2019I Am Dynamite![23]
2020Reckless Paper Birds[24]
2022New and Selected Poems[25]
2023An Olive Grove in Ends[26]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: The Hawthornden Prize. 1 June 1961. The Glasgow Herald. 23. 29 August 2010. 23 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210723102436/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bBk1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=TKYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=5906,249513. live.
  2. Web site: Hawthornden Prize . 2023-09-15 . Hawthornden Foundation . en-US.
  3. Web site: Moseley. Merritt. The Hawthornden Prize. University of North Carolina. 16 May 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110409213015/http://facstaff.unca.edu/moseley/hawthorn.html. 9 April 2011.
  4. Book: Shaffer, Brian W. . A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945 – 2000. 26 August 2013. 2008. John Wiley & Sons. 978-1-4051-5616-5. 164.
  5. News: Catholic Herald. Waugh's 'Campion' and Campion Hall. 26 August 2013. 26 June 1936.
  6. Book: Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. registration. 26 August 2013. January 1995. Merriam-Webster. 978-0-87779-042-6. 523.
  7. News: 14 July 2017 . Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday wins fiction's most secretive prize . The Guardian . live . 14 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170714074524/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/14/graham-swift-mothering-sunday-fiction-secretive-award-hawthornden-prize-drue-heinz . 14 July 2017.
  8. Web site: Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. Miss A H Warrender Trust for Hawthornden Prize. 26 August 2013. 29 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200448/https://www.oscr.org.uk/search-charity-register/charity-extract/?charitynumber=sc000409. dead.
  9. Web site: Hawthornden Prize . 2023-03-13 . . 14 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181214164301/http://web.mnstate.edu/schwartz/hawthornden.htm . live .
  10. News: Kevin . Myers . 26 May 2002 . This Constant Stream of English Life . The Telegraph . live . 26 August 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150122110713/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3577091/This-constant-stream-of-English-life.html . 22 January 2015.
  11. Web site: Awards & Prizes . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140808052533/http://www.faber.co.uk/about/awards-prizes-list/ . 8 August 2014 . 25 July 2014 . Faber & Faber.
  12. News: 1931-06-18 . WINS HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE.; Captain Dennis Was First Thought to Be a Woman. . en-US . . 2023-03-13 . 0362-4331 . 13 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230313025918/https://www.nytimes.com/1931/06/18/archives/wins-hawthornden-prize-captain-dennis-was-first-thought-to-be-a.html . live .
  13. News: Doyle . Martin . 2022-06-30 . Michael Longley wins €250,000 Feltrinelli Poetry Prize and Ian Duhig wins Hawthornden Prize . 2023-03-13 . . en . 23 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221223204556/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2022/06/30/michael-longley-wins-250000-feltrinelli-poetry-prize-and-ian-duhig-wins-hawthornden-prize/ . live .
  14. News: 19 July 2012 . Award: The Hawthornden Prize for Literature . The Times . 26 August 2013 . 27 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141027042128/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/courtsocial/article3479804.ece . live .
  15. Web site: 17 October 2013 . Award winning poet Jamie McKendrick among 'Creative Minds' to come to Birmingham . 2023-03-13 . . en . 24 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210724073820/https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2013/10/17-Oct-Award-winning-poet-Jamie-McKendrick-among-Creative-Minds-to-come-to-Birmingham.aspx . live .
  16. http://www.brookes.ac.uk/hss-events/Poetry-reading "Past event: Poetry reading and conversation, with Jamie McKendrick"
  17. Web site: October 27, 2014 . hawthornden prize . 2023-03-13 . B O D Y Literature . en-US . 13 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230313025852/https://www.bodyliterature.com/tag/hawthornden-prize/ . live .
  18. 23 July 2015 . Colm Tóibín scoops Hawthornden Literature Prize . RTÉ News . 23 July 2015 . 23 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150723214658/http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2015/0723/716571-colm-toibin-wins-hawthornden-prize/ . live .
  19. Web site: Cowdrey . Katherine . 6 July 2016 . Tessa Hadley wins Hawthornden Prize . 2023-03-13 . The Bookseller . 19 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161119060204/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/tessa-hadley-wins-hawthornden-prize-2016-343626 . live .
  20. Web site: 2017-07-13 . "Festttag" für Graham Swift: Heute Abend erhält er den Hawthornden Prize 2017 . 2023-03-13 . Buchmarkt . de-DE . 28 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220928125922/https://buchmarkt.de/buecher/festttag-fuer-graham-swift-hawthornden-prize-2017/ . live .
  21. News: Lee . Hermione . 2017-07-14 . Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday wins fiction's most secretive prize . en-GB . . 2023-03-13 . 0261-3077 . 14 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170714074524/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/14/graham-swift-mothering-sunday-fiction-secretive-award-hawthornden-prize-drue-heinz . live .
  22. Web site: 2018-09-12 . Jenny Uglow wins the Hawthornden Prize for Literature 2018 . 2023-03-13 . Faber . en-US . 28 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220628083851/https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/jenny-uglow-wins-the-hawthornden-prize-for-literature-2018/ . live .
  23. Web site: 2019-07-11 . Sue Prideaux wins the 2019 Hawthornden Prize for Literature . 2023-03-13 . Faber . en-US . 27 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220927004343/https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/sue-prideaux-wins-the-2019-hawthornden-prize-for-literature/ . live .
  24. Web site: Wilkinson . Kate . 24 July 2020 . John McCullough wins the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature . 2020-07-24 . Penned in the Margins . 24 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200724200848/http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2020/07/john-mccullough-wins-the-2020-hawthornden-prize-for-literature/ . live .
  25. Web site: 2022-06-22 . Ian Duhig wins the Hawthornden Prize for Literature . 2023-03-13 . CAP Arts Centre . en-GB . 1 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221201031803/https://www.capartscentre.com/2022/06/ian-duhig-wins-the-hawthornden-prize-for-literature/ . live .
  26. Web site: Moses McKenzie wins prestigious Hawthornden Prize for Literature. 3 August 2023. The Ampersand Agency.

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