The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

The Hawthornden Prize, one of Britain’s oldest literary awards, was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender.

This £25,000 prize is awarded annually to a British, Irish or British-based author for a work of “imaginative literature” – including poetry, novels, history, biography and creative non-fiction – published in the previous calendar year. The prize is for a book in English, not for a translation. Previous winners of the prize are excluded from the shortlist. Unlike other major literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize does not solicit submissions.

The 2025 prize has been awarded to Manya Wilkinson for Lublin

Samantha Harvey won in 2024 for Orbital (which went on to win a lesser prize I'm told)

Past winners here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthor...

Prize own website here - https://www.hawthornden.org/hawthornd...

It's named a bit out of the blue I think i.e. no shortlist etc.