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Gordon Burn Prize

The Gordon Burn Prize was launched in 2013 as a vehicle by which "to reward fiction or non-fiction written in the English language, which in the opinion of the judges most successfully represents the spirit and sensibility of [Gordon Burn]'s literary methods: novels which dare to enter history and interrogate the past ... literature which challenges perceived notions of genre and makes us think again about just what it is that we are reading."[1]

The prize is jointly organised by the Gordon Burn Trust, New Writing North and Faber & Faber. The winner receives a prize sum (originally £5,000), and is offered the use of Burn's cottage in Berwickshire as a writers' retreat.[1] Up until 2024, the prize ceremony was generally the first event of the Durham Book Festival. In 2024, the prize fund was doubled to £10,000 due to new sponsors and the award ceremony relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne.[2][3]

Winners and shortlists

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Year Author Title Publisher Ref
2013 Ben Myers Pig Iron Bluemoose Books [4][5]
Anthony Cartwright How I Killed Margaret Thatcher Tindal Street Press [6][7]
Duncan Hamilton The Footballer Who Could Fly Century
Richard Lloyd Parry People Who Eat Darkness Jonathan Cape
Jean Rafferty Myra, Beyond Saddleworth Wild Wolf Publishing
2014 Paul Kingsnorth The Wake Unbound [8]
Richard Benson The Valley Bloomsbury [9][10]
Richard House The Kills Picador
Olivia Laing The Trip to Echo Spring Canongate
Gruff Rhys American Interior Hamish Hamilton
Willy Vlautin The Free Faber and Faber
2015 Dan Davies In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile Quercus [11]
Honor Gavin Midland Penned in the Margins [12][13]
Romesh Gunesekera Noon Tide Toll Granta Books
Richard King Original Rockers Faber and Faber
Peter Pomerantsev Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible PublicAffairs
2016 David Szalay All That Man Is Jonathan Cape [14][15]
Jeremy Gavron A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son's Search for his Mother Scribe [16][17]
Olivia Laing The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Picador
Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Penguin Press
Harry Parker Anatomy of a Soldier Faber and Faber
Adrian Tempany And the Sun Shines Now Faber and Faber
2017 Denise Mina The Long Drop Harvill Secker [18][19]
Kapka Kassabova Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Granta Books [20][21]
David Keenan This Is Memorial Device Faber and Faber
Lara Pawson This Is the Place to Be CB Editions
Gwendoline Riley First Love Granta Books
Adelle Stripe Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile Wrecking Ball Press
2018 Jesse Ball Census Granta Books [22]
Nicola Barker H(a)ppy William Heinemann [23][24]
Guy Gunaratne In Our Mad and Furious City Tinder Press
Olivia Laing Crudo Picador
Deborah Levy The Cost of Living Hamish Hamilton
Michelle McNamara I'll Be Gone in the Dark Faber and Faber
2019 David Keenan For the Good Times Faber and Faber [25]
Pat Barker The Silence of the Girls Penguin [26][27]
Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Hamish Hamilton
Niven Govinden This Brutal House Dialogue Books
Max Porter Lanny Faber and Faber
Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People Chatto & Windus
2020 Peter Pomerantsev This Is Not Propaganda Faber and Faber [28]
Jenn Ashworth Notes Made While Falling Goldsmiths Press [29][30]
Paul Mendez Rainbow Milk Dialogue Books
Deborah Orr Motherwell: A Girlhood Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Lemn Sissay My Name Is Why Canongate
Lisa Taddeo Three Women Bloomsbury
2021 Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America Allen Lane [31]
Sam Byers Come Join Our Disease Faber and Faber [32]
Jenni Fagan Luckenbooth William Heinemann
Salena Godden Mrs Death Misses Death Canongate
Tabitha Lasley Sea State HarperCollins
Doireann Ní Ghríofa A Ghost in the Throat Tramp Press
2022 Preti Taneja Aftermath And Other Stories [33][34]
Graeme Macrae Burnet Case Study Saraband [35]
Margo Jefferson Constructing a Nervous System Granta Books
David Whitehouse About a Son Phoenix Press
Lea Ypi Free: Coming of Age at the End of History Allen Lane
2023 / 2024 Kathryn Scanlan Kick the Latch Daunt Originals [36]
Rory Carroll Killing Thatcher Mudlark [37][38]
Jonathan Escoffery If I Survive You 4th Estate
Anna Funder Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life Viking Press
John Niven O Brother Canongate
Megan Nolan Ordinary Human Failings Jonathan Cape
Tanya Tagaq Split Tooth And Other Stories

References

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