The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award that was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender, who was born at Hawthornden Castle. Authors under the age of 41 are awarded on the quality of their "imaginative literature", which can be written in either poetry or prose. The Hawthornden Committee awards the Prize annually for a work published in the previous twelve months. There have been several gap years without a recipient (1945–57, 1959, 1966, 1971–73, and 1984–87). Unlike other major literary awards, the Hawthornden does not solicit submissions. It is also universal in its coverage of the literary, welcoming fiction, travel writing, artistic and historical works. The Hawthornden Prize, along with the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Monetarily, it is modest: it offered £100 in 1936, in 1995 was worth £2000 and by 2017 had increased to £15,000. It is administered by the Hawthornden Trust set up by Warrender, and sponsored by the private trust of Drue Heinz. Awards 1919 Edward Shanks: The Queen of China 1920 John Freeman: Poems New and Old 1921 Romer Wilson: The Death of Society 1922 Edmund Blunden: The Shepherd 1923 David Garnett: Lady into Fox 1924 Ralph Hale Mottram: The Spanish Farm 1925 Seán O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock 1926 Vita Sackville-West: The Land 1927 Henry Williamson: Tarka the Otter 1928 Siegfried Sassoon: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man 1929 Lord David Cecil: The Stricken Deer 1930 Geoffrey Dennis: The End of the World 1931 Kate O'Brien: Without My Cloak 1932 Charles Morgan: The Fountain 1933 Vita Sackville-West: Collected Poems 1934 James Hilton: Lost Horizon 1935 Robert Graves: I, Claudius 1936 Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion 1937 Ruth Pitter: A Trophy of Arms 1938 David Jones: In Parenthesis 1939 Christopher Hassall: Penthesperon 1940 James Pope-Hennessy: London Fabric 1941 Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory 1942 John Llewelyn Rhys: England Is My Village 1943 Sidney Keyes: The Cruel Solstice and The Iron Laurel 1944 Martyn Skinner: Letters to Malaya 1958 Dom Moraes: A Beginning 1960 Alan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1961 Ted Hughes: Lupercal 1962 Robert Shaw: The Sun Doctor 1963 Alistair Horne: The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 1964 V. S. Naipaul: Mr Stone and the Knights Companion 1965 William Trevor: The Old Boys 1967 Michael Frayn: The Russian Interpreter 1968 Michael Levey: Early Renaissance 1969 Geoffrey Hill: King Log 1970 Piers Paul Read: Monk Dawson