Hawthornden Prize

The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award. It was founded in 1919 and has been given annually, with a few gaps. There is no set category of literature: the specification is for the "best work of imaginative literature", but there is no implied restriction to fiction and poetry. Those, with drama, but also biography, travel writing and other types of non-fiction, have been recognised over the years.

Related Topics:
Biography - Travel writing - Non-fiction

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The awards made in the early 1920s were criticised in some quarters, as motivated by coterie literary politics around J. C. Squire. After the 1925 award to Sean O'Casey there was a gradual shift in emphasis. The list of past winners has little in the way of evident common factor, other than a preference in general for the middle of the road.

Related Topics:
J. C. Squire - Sean O'Casey

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