Hawthornden Prize

This prize is awarded for 'imaginative literature' (including poetry, novels, history, biography and creative non-fiction) written in English by a British, Irish or British-based author. You can't win it more than once.

1919: The Queen of China by Edward Shanks
1920: Poems New and Old by John Freeman
1921: The Death of Society by Romer Wilson
1922: The Shepherd by Edmund Blinden
1923: Lady into Fox by David Garnett
Also winner of the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1924: The Spanish Farm by Ralph Hale Mottram
1925: Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey
1926: The Land by Vita Sackville-West
1927: Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
1928: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
1929: The Stricken Deer by Lord David Cecil
1930: The End of the World by Geoffrey Dennis
1931: Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien
1932: The Fountain by Charles Morgan
1933: Collected Poems by Vita Sackville-West
1934: Lost Horizon by James Hilton
1935: I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Also winner of the 1936 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1936: Edmund Camion by Evelyn Waugh
1937: A Trophy of Arms by Ruth Pitter
1938: In Parenthesis by David Jones
1939: Penthesperon by Christopher Hassall
1940: London Fabric by James Pope-Hennessy
1941: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
1942: England is My Village by John Llewellyn Rhys
1943: The Cruel Solstice and the Iron Laurel by Sidney Keyes
1944: Letters to Malaya by Martin Skinner
The Prize was not awarded between 1945 and 1957
1958: A Beginning by Dom Moraes
The Prize was not awarded in 1959
1960: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
1961: Lupercal by Ted Hughes
1962: The Sun Doctor by Robert Shaw
1963: The Price of Glory by Alistair Horne
1964: Mr Stone and the Knights Companion by V S Naipaul
1965: The Old Boys by William Trevor
The Prize was not awarded in 1966
1967: The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn
1968: Early Renaissance by Michael Levey
1969: King Log by Geoffrey Hill
1970: Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read
The Prize was not awarded between 1971 and 1973
1974: Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
1975: Changing Places by David Lodge
1976: Falstaff by Robert Nye
1977: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
1978: Walter by David Cook
1979: Kindergaten by P S Rushforth
1980: Arcadia by Christopher Reid
1981: St Kilda's Parliament by Douglas Dunn
1982: Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
1983: Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates
Also winner of the 1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The Prize was not awarded between 1984 and 1987 
1988: Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China by Colin Thubron
1989: Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
1990: Short Afternoons by Kit Wright
1991: The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomlain
1992: Of Love and Asthma by Ferdinand Mount
1993: The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow
1994: In Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears
1995: Collected Poems by James Michie
1996: An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
1997: The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
1998: Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa by Charles Nicholl
1999: Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
2000: The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley
2001: Hey Yeah Right Get a Life by Helen Simpson
2002: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy
2003: The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
2004: John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate
2005: The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
2006: Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
2007: Carry Me Down by M J Hyland
2008: Darkmans by Nicola Barker
2009: The World Is What It Is by Patrick French
2010: A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald
2011: What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam
2012: There But For The by Ali Smith
2013: Out There by Jamie McKendrick
2014: Dear Boy by Emily Berry
2015: Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
2016: The Past by Tessa Hadlet
2017: Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
2018: Mr Lear by Jenny Uglow
2019: I Am Dynamite! by Sue Prideaux
2020: Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough
The Prize was not awarded in 2021
2022 New and Selected Poems by Ian Duhig
2023: An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie
 

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