We’re over the moon to announce that Manya Wilkinson has been awarded this year’s Hawthornden Prize for Literature for her novel Lublin, published by And Other Stories in 2024. 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. Previous recipients include Samantha Harvey, Naoise Dolan, Colm Tóibín and Ali Smith.
Having already garnered both the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award and the Wingate Prize, Wilkinson’s novel continues to grow in stature. Lublin was also selected by Neel Mukherjee as a New Statesman Book of the Year 2024:
The best novel I read this year was Lublin by Manya Wilkinson. Part picaresque, part boys’ adventure story, part Freud’s joke book, part immersive dive into early-20th-century Jewish life in a Polish corner of the Russian empire, this funny and devastating novel is lucid, beautiful and utterly original. Where has this author been hiding all these years?
We are exceptionally proud to publish Manya Wilkinson’s work and offer our gratitude to the Hawthornden Foundation for their support.