Hawthornden Prize

2017
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift

2016
The Past by Tessa Hadley

2015
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin

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 by Candia McWilliam

2010
A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald

2009
The World Is What It Is by Patrick French

2008
Darkmans by Nicola Barker

2007
Carry Me Down by MJ 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 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

2000
The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley

1999
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

1998
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa by Charles Nicholl

1997
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

1996
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel

1995
Collected Poems by James Michie

1994
In the Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears

1993
The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow

1992
Of Love and Asthma by Ferdinand Mount

1991
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin

1990
Short Afternoons by Kit Wright

1989
Talking Heads 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 PS Rushforth

1978
Walter by David Cook

1977
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

1976
Falstaff 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 VS 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 & 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 by Lord David Cecil

1928
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 by Edmund Blunden

1921
The Death of Society by Romer Wilson

1920
Poems New and Old by John Freeman

1919
The Queen of China by Edwards Shanks