# 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. 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 winners :
| Year | Author | Title |
| 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 |
| 1923 | David Garnett | Lady into Fox |
| 1924 | Ralph Hale Mottram | The Spanish Farm |
| 1925 | Seán O'Casey | Juno and the Paycock |
| 1926 | Vita Sackville-West | The Land |
| 1927 | Henry Williamson | Tarka the Otter |
| 1928 | Siegfried Sassoon | Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man |
| 1929 | Lord David Cecil | The Stricken Deer |
| 1930 | Geoffrey Dennis | The End of the World |
| 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 |
| 1936 | Evelyn Waugh | Edmund Campion |
| 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 |
| 1965 | William Trevor | The Old Boys |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2000 | Michael Longley | The Weather in Japan |
| 2001 | Helen Simpson | Hey Yeah Right Get a Life |
| 2002 | Eamon Duffy | The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village |
| 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 |
| 2013 | Jamie McKendrick | Out There |
| 2014 | Emily Berry | Dear Boy |
| 2015 | Colm Tóibín | Nora Webster |
| 2016 | Tessa Hadley | The Past |
| 2017 | Graham Swift | Mothering Sunday |
| 2018 | Jenny Uglow | Mr Lear |
| 2019 | Sue Prideaux | I Am Dynamite! |
| 2020 | John McCullough | Reckless Paper Birds |
| 2022 | Ian Duhig | New and Selected Poems |
| 2023 | Moses McKenzie | An Olive Grove in Ends |
| 2024 | Samantha Harvey | Orbital |