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HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE FOR IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE 1919-2002 EAMON DUFFY |
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HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE FOR IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE 1919-2002 EAMON DUFFY |
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The Hawthornden Prize, the oldest of the famous British literary prizes, was founded in 1919 by Alice Warrender. It is awarded annually to an English writer for the best work of imaginative literature. It is especially designed to encourage young authors an the word 'imaginative' is given a broad interpretation. A panel of judges decides the winner. No award was given in 1984-87, 1971-73, 1966, 1959, 1945-57.
| 2002 | Eamon Duffy | The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village |
| 2001 | Helen Simpson | Hey Yeah Right Get a Life |
| 2000 | Michael Longley | The Weather in Japan |
| 1999 | Antony Beevor | Stalingrad |
| 1998 | Charles Nicholl | Somebody Else |
| 1997 | John Lanchester | The Debt to Pleasure |
| 1996 | Hilary Mantel | An Experiment in Love |
| 1995 | James Michie | The Collected Poems |
| 1994 | Tim Pears | In the Place of Fallen Leaves |
| 1993 | Andrew Barrow | The Top 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1964 | V. S. Naipaul | Mr. Stone and the Knight's Companion |
| 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 |
| 1935 | Robert Claudius | I, Claudius |
| 1934 | James Hilton | Lost Horizon |
| 1933 | Victoria 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 |
| 1928 | Sigfried Sassoon | Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man |
| 1927 | Henry Williamson | Tarka the Otter |
| 1926 | Victoria Sackville-West | The Land |
| 1925 | Sean O'Casey | Juno and the Paycock |
| 1924 | Ralph Hale Mottram | The Spanish Farm |
| 1923 | David Garnett | Lady into Fox |
| 1922 | Edmund Blunden | The Shepherd |
| 1921 | Romer Wilson | The Death of Society |
| 1920 | John Freeman | Poems New and Old |
| 1919 | Edward Shanks | The Queen of China |
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