Hawthornden Prize
The Hawthornden Prize , English Hawthornden Prize , is the oldest literary prize in Great Britain . Established in 1918, it has been awarded annually since 1919 to writers for a literary work that has been published in the last twelve months and is characterized by a special imagination . The winners will be chosen by a committee of the Miss Alice Warrender Foundation for Hawthornden Prize . The foundation is based at Hawthornden Castle near Edinburgh .
history
Hawthornden is an old barony in the Scottish Midlands not far from Edinburgh. In particular, the scenic area around Hawthornden Castle , located on a densely wooded gorge of the North Esk , has inspired artists, painters, poets, poets and writers for centuries. At the latest after Ben Jonson , next to William Shakespeare the most important English playwright of the Renaissance , walked from London to Edinburgh in 1619 and visited the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden , Hawthornden Castle is considered an important meeting place for poets and thinkers.
Little is known about the founder of the literature prize, Alice Warrender (* 1857, † 1947). She was born in Hawthornden and was the second daughter of Helen Purves-Hume-Campbell and Sir George Warrender, 6th Baronet of Lochend and Bruntsfield. The single and childless writer wanted to use the award to promote young British writers whose works are distinguished by their extraordinary imagination . The prize was formally established by her in the spring of 1918, which is why it is considered the oldest literary prize in Great Britain. Works that were published between May 31 and June 1 of the following year were considered. This evaluation period is still valid today. The first award ceremony took place on July 10, 1919. The first prize winner was the 27-year-old Edward Shanks . He received the award for his work The Queen of China from Sir Edmund Gosse .
Alice Warrender transferred her fortune in 1935 to a foundation, the Miss Alice Warrender Foundation for Hawthornden Prize , which, in addition to the literature prize, grants individuals loans, scholarships and pensions, among other things. Until the mid-1980s, the Hawthornden Prize could only be awarded to authors up to the age of 41. The statutory prize is £ 10,000 . The endowment can be increased by private donors. In 2017, the prize money was £ 15,000, donated by the patron Drue Heinz ( HJ Heinz Company ).
Unlike other literary prizes, the Hawthornden Prize is not awarded on the basis of proposals, applications or recommendations. A jury consisting of writers, journalists, scientists and professors from different universities will decide on the winner. The award usually takes place annually, usually in June or July in the London Library . The award can be suspended if the committee does not find any of the imaginative literature published in the last twelve months to be worthy of an award. In the past, the age limit mentioned had to be observed. So far, no award winner has been determined 22 times (as of 2020).
Despite the low endowment according to the statutes compared to other literary prizes, the Hawthornden Prize is considered extremely prestigious in literary circles due to its hurdles and political independence. It is not uncommon for the award to help the winners achieve their literary breakthrough. Accordingly, the list of winners is often viewed as the “who is who” of British literature for the past hundred years.
List of award winners
| year | winner | plant |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | John McCullough | Reckless Paper Birds |
| 2019 | Sue Prideaux | I am dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 2018 | Jenny Uglow | Mr. Lear |
| 2017 | Graham Swift | Mothering Sunday |
| 2016 | Tessa Hadley | The past |
| 2015 | Colm Tóibín | Nora Webster |
| 2014 | Emily Berry | Dear boy |
| 2013 | Jamie McKentrick | Out there |
| 2012 | Ali Smith | There but for the |
| 2011 | Candida McWilliam | What to look for in winter |
| 2010 | Alice Oswald | A sleepwalk on the Severn |
| 2009 | Patrick French | The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of VS Naipaul |
| 2008 | Nicola Barker | Darkmans |
| 2007 | MJ Hyland | Carry me down |
| 2006 | Alexander Masters | Stuart: A Life Backwards |
| 2005 | Justin Cartwright | The Promise of Happiness |
| 2004 | Jonathan Bate | John Clare: A Biography |
| 2003 | William Fiennes | The Snow Geese |
| 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: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91 |
| 1997 | John Lanchester | The Debt to Pleasure |
| 1996 | Hilary coat | Experiment in Love |
| 1995 | James Michie | The Collected Poems |
| 1994 | Tim Pears | In the Place of Fallen Leaves |
| 1993 | Andrew Barrow | The Tap Dancer |
| 1992 | Ferdinand Mount | Of love and asthma |
| 1991 | Claire Tomalin | The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens |
| 1990 | Kit Wright | Short afternoons |
| 1989 | Alan Bennett | Talking heads |
| 1988 | Colin Thubron | Behind the Wall: A Journey through China |
| 1987 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1986 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1985 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1984 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1983 | Jonathan Keates | Allegro Postillions |
| 1982 | Timothy Mo | Sour Sweet |
| 1981 | Douglas Dunn | St. Kilda's Parliament |
| 1980 | Christopher Reid | Arcadia |
| 1979 | PS Rushforth | kindergarten |
| 1978 | David Cook | Walter |
| 1977 | Bruce Chatwin | In Patagonia |
| 1976 | Robert Nye | Falstaff |
| 1975 | David Lodge | Changing places |
| 1974 | Oliver Sacks | Awakenings |
| 1973 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1972 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1971 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1970 | Piers Paul Read | Monk Dawson |
| 1969 | Geoffrey Hill | King Log |
| 1968 | Michael Levey | Early Renaissance |
| 1967 | Michael Frayn | The Russian Interpreter |
| 1966 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1965 | William Trevor | The Old Boys |
| 1964 | VS Naipaul | Mr. Stone and the Knights 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 |
| 1959 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1958 | Dom Moraes | A beginning |
| 1957 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1956 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1955 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1954 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1953 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1952 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1951 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1950 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1949 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1948 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1947 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1946 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 1945 | not forgiven | not forgiven |
| 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 | Saint Edmund Campion : Priest and Martyr |
| 1935 | Robert Graves | I, Claudius |
| 1934 | James Hilton | Lost Horizon |
| 1933 | Vita 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 | David Cecil | The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper |
| 1928 | Siegfried Sassoon | Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man |
| 1927 | Henry Williamson | Tarka the Otter |
| 1926 | Vita Sackville-West | The country |
| 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 |
Jury members (selection)
- Edmund Gosse
- Edward Marsh
- Maurice Hewlett
- Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
- Gilbert Murray
- John Galsworthy
- John Drinkwater
- Walter de la Mare
- Augustine Birrell
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
- John Masefield
- John Collings Squire
- Lady Hermione Lee
- Christopher Reid
See also
literature
- Susan Leckey: The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes. Routledge, 2015.
Web links
- Hawthornden Prize Winner Miss AH Warrender Trust for Hawthornden Prize, accessed December 13, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information The London Library in: londonlibrary.co.uk, accessed December 12, 2018
- ^ Susan Leckey: The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes. Routledge, 2015, p. 124.
- ↑ Craig Alan Lerner: The Grants Register 1989–1991. Springer, 1988, p. 297.
- ^ The Castle of Words in: The Bardic Academic, accessed December 13, 2018.
- ↑ Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday wins fiction's most secretive prize in: theguardian.com, accessed December 13, 2018.
- ^ Mary Pache: The Tree Warrender Sisters. Ruislip. Northwood & Eastcote Journal, 2010, p. 34. In: Northwood & Eastcote Local History Society, accessed December 13, 2018.
- ^ William Henry Hills, Robert Luce: The Writer. A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers. Volume 31. Writer Publishing Company, 1919, p. 139.
- ↑ Charity Details Miss AH Warrender Trust For Hawthornden Prize in: Scottish Charity Regulator, accessed December 13, 2018
- ^ Susan Leckey: The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes. Routledge, 2015, p. 124.
- ↑ Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday wins fiction's most secretive prize in: theguardian.com, accessed December 13, 2018.
- ^ Merritt Moseley: The Hawthornden Prize. University of North Carolina, 2010.
- ^ The Castle of Words in: The Bardic Academic, accessed December 13, 2018
- ↑ Tessa Hadley wins Hawthornden Prize 2016 in: thebookseller.com, accessed December 14, 2018
- ↑ John McCullough wins the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature Penned in the Margins, accessed July 26, 2020.