Manya Wilkinson's Lublin awarded the 2025 Hawthornden Prize for Literature
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Manya Wilkinson is the winner of the 2025 Hawthornden Prize for Literature!
Her novel Lublin, is also the winner of the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize and the 2025 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. Lublin was published by And Other Stories in 2024, and continues to grow.
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?
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. Unlike other major literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize does not solicit submissions.
Read more about the prize here.
