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David Lodge, comic novelist and academic whose ‘Campus Trilogy’ included Changing Places and Nice Work
AOL 03 Jan 2025
The latter two were both short-listed for the Booker Prize and adapted for television, while Changing Places won the Hawthornden Prize and Nice Work the Sunday Express Book of the Year award.
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David Lodge, novelist and academic whose Campus Trilogy included Changing Places – obituary
The Daily Telegraph 03 Jan 2025
The latter two were both short-listed for the Booker Prize and adapted for television, while Changing Places won the Hawthornden Prize and Nice Work the Sunday Express Book of the Year award.
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Moses McKenzie: ‘I was thinking about the predicament of the black British diaspora’
The Observer 28 Apr 2024
Moses McKenzie, 26, won last year’s Hawthornden prize, previously awarded to Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, for his 2022 debut, An Olive Grove in Ends, set among Jamaicans and Somalis in Bristol, where he grew up ... It’s a period in living memory ... Ulysses.
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Lessons From the Life of Evelyn Waugh
The American Spectator 14 Apr 2024
... and Waugh did much in that time to publicly demonstrate his devotion the Catholic Church, including writing his biography of Edmund Campion, for which he was awarded the prestigious Hawthornden Prize.
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Shortlist announced for one of UK’s oldest literature competitions
AOL 27 Mar 2024
The memorial prize, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, was first awarded in 1919 and is the UK’s oldest literary award, alongside the Hawthornden Prize, which also launched in 1919.
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Children’s Books Ireland Awards shortlist
The Irish Times 09 Feb 2024
Nine literary translators and one editor have been awarded this year’s Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes, sponsored by Amazon Literary Partnership and Hawthornden Foundation with a total prize fund of £28,000.
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Books of the year 2023
New Statesman 24 Nov 2023
An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie (Wildfire) is an astonishing debut novel by a 23-year-old author who deservedly won the Hawthornden Prize (I was on the judging panel), and will I hope get wide readership.
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Little Island is first Irish publisher to have Kirkus Prize finalist; Moses McKenzie wins Hawthornden Prize
The Irish Times 01 Sep 2023
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What’s in a Name?: a kaleidoscopic portrait of multicultural Britain
The Irish Times 12 Aug 2023
... from its superdiversity (to use Vertovec’s term), the inevitable future condition of world cities everywhere.Ian Duhig’s ‘New and Selected Poems’ won the 2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature .
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An Open Letter to Nobody: The Duties of Poetry in 2023
UK Column 27 Jul 2023
Eliot Prize in 2002 ... A Sleepwalk on the Severn, another book-length poem published in 2009, was commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council and won the Hawthornden Prize ... Eliot Prize and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.
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After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley: Middle England stories that leave you wiser for having read them
The Irish Times 17 Jul 2023
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British writer and historian Patrick French dies following battle with cancer
Indian Express 16 Mar 2023
He is the author of Younghusband; Liberty or Death; Tibet, Tibet; and The World Is What It Is, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize.
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Author and historian Patrick French dies in London
Khaleejtimes 16 Mar 2023
He was 57 ... “It was so sudden ... ... These included the Hawthornden Prize, the Royal Society of Literature WH Heinemann Prize, the US National Book Critics Circle Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award ... .
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