Hawthornden Prize
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Warrender Trust for Hawthornden Prize, click
here.
2017 Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
2016 The past by Tessa Hadley
2015
Nora Webster : a
novel by Colm Tóibín
2014 Dear boy by Emily Berry
2013 Out there by Jamie McKendrick
2012 There but for the by Ali Smith
2011 What to look for in winter : a
memoir in blindness by Candia McWilliam:
2010 A sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice
Oswald
2009
The world is what it
is : the authorized biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French
2008
Darkmans by
Nicola Barker
2007
Carry me down by
M. J. Hyland
2006
Stuart : a life
backwards by Alexander Masters
2005 The promise of happiness by Justin
Cartwright
2004
John Clare : a
biography by Jonathan Bate
2003 The snow geese : a story of home
by William Fiennes
2002
The voices of
Morebath : Reformation and rebellion in an English village by Eamon Duffy
2001 Hey yeah right get a life by Helen Simpson
(American edition
here)
2000 The weather in Japan by Michael Longley
1999
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
1998 Somebody else : Arthur Rimbaud in
Africa, 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl
1997
The debt to pleasure
: a novel by John Lanchester
1996 An experiment in love by Hilary Mantel
1995 Collected poems by James Michie
1994 In the place of fallen leaves : a
novel by Tim Pears
1993 The tap dancer by Andrew Barrow
1992 Of love and asthma by Ferdinand Mount
1991
The invisible woman :
the story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
1990 Short afternoons by Kit Wright
1989 Talking heads : six monologues by Alan Bennett
1988
Behind the wall : a
journey through China by Colin Thubron
1983 Allegro postillions by Jonathan Keates
1982
Sour sweet by Timothy Mo
1981 St. Kilda's Parliament by Douglas Dunn
1980 Arcadia by Christopher Reid
1979
Kindergarten by Peter S. Rushforth
1978 Walter : a novel by David Cook
1977
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
1976
Falstaff : a novel
by Robert Nye
1975 Changing places by David Lodge
1974
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
1970 Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read
1969
King Log by Geoffrey Hill
1968
Early Renaissance
by Michael Levey
1967 The Russian interpreter by Michael Frayn
1965 The old boys by William Trevor
1964 Mr Stone and the Knights Companion
by V. S. Naipaul
1963
The price of glory :
Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne
1962 The sun doctor by Robert Shaw
1961
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
1960
The loneliness of the
long-distance runner by Alan Sillitoe
1958 A beginning by Dom Moraes
1944 Letters to Malaya by Martyn Skinner
1943 The cruel solstice and The iron laurel
by Sidney
Keyes
1942
England is my village
by John Llewellyn Rhys
1941
The power and the
glory by Graham Greene
1940 London fabric by James Pope-Hennessy
1939 Penthesperon by Christopher Hassall
1938 In Parenthesis by David Jones
1937 A trophy of arms by Ruth Pitter
1936 Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh
1935
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
1934
Lost horizon by James Hilton
1933 Collected poems by Vita Sackville-West
1932
The fountain by Charles Morgan
1931
Without my cloak
by Kate O'Brien
1930 The end of the world by Geoffrey Dennis
1929
The stricken deer;
or, The life of Cowper by Lord David Cecil
1928
The memoirs of a
fox-hunting man by Siegfried Sassoon
1927 Tarka the otter by Henry Williamson
1926 The land by Vita Sackville-West
1925
Juno and the paycock
by Sean O'Casey
1924
The Spanish farm
by Ralph Hale Mottram
1923
Lady into fox by David Garnett
1922
The shepherd and
other poems of peace and war by Edmund Blunden
1921 The death of society : a novel of
tomorrow by Romer Wilson (audio version
here)
1920
Poems new and old by John Freeman
1919
The Queen of
China and other poems by Edward Shanks