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. Biography (from the Greek words bios meaning life, and graphein meaning write) is a genre of literature and other forms of media like film, based on the written accounts of individual lives. ... Travel writing is a literary genre related to the essay and to the guidebook. ... Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is composed of facts, true or untrue. ...
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. For British late 20th century musician of the same name, see John Squire Sir John Squire (John Collings Squire) (1882–1958) was an English poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period. ... Sean OCasey Sean OCasey (March 30, 1880 - September 18, 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memorist. ...
The oldest of the major British literary prizes was founded in 1919 by Miss Alice Warrender.
It is awarded annually to an English writer for "the best work of imaginative literature," which is liberally interpreted and thus may include biography, travel, art history, etc, as well as fiction and drama.
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