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Gordon Burn prize

All the latest news about the Gordon Burn prize for books.

March 2024

  • Kathryn Scanlan.

    Kathryn Scanlan: Gordon Burn prize winner on pushing the boundaries of fiction

  • Kathryn Scanlan.

    Kathryn Scanlan wins Gordon Burn prize for novel Kick the Latch

January 2024

  • John Niven, Megan Nolan and Jonathan Escoffery

    Gordon Burn prize announces ‘blazing’ shortlist

    Seven-strong shortlist of boundary-pushing books ranges from an Arctic coming-of-age novel to nonfiction about the IRA’s Brighton bombing

October 2022

  • Preti Taneja.

    2022 Gordon Burn prize awarded to London Bridge terror attack examination, Aftermath

    Narrative non-fiction winner is written by Preti Taneja, who taught Usman Khan creative writing two years before he stabbed five people and killed two

August 2022

  • Preti Taneja, David Whitehouse, Graeme Macrae Burnet.

    Gordon Burn prize shortlist announced: jazz icons, true crime and a rogue psychotherapist

    Preti Taneja, David Whitehouse, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Margo Jefferson and Lea Ypi are shortlisted for the prize rewarding ‘bold and innovative’ books

October 2021

  • Hanif Abdurraqib

    Hanif Abdurraqib wins the Gordon Burn prize for A Little Devil in America

    The poet and essayist’s extraordinary collection on Black culture in the US is ‘simultaneously a joyous celebration and a crushing reproach’

August 2021

  • ‘An unusually high standard’ … shortlisted authors Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Hanif Abdurraqib and Jenni Fagan.

    Sam Byers and Salena Godden shortlisted for the Gordon Burn prize

    Six fiction and nonfiction titles are in the running for the £5,000 prize, awarded to a work of ‘dazzlingly bold and forward-thinking’ literature

October 2020

  • Peter Pomerantsev.

    Peter Pomerantsev's study of 'the war against reality' wins Gordon Burn prize

    This Is Not Propaganda ranges across the world in its study of disinformation, and reveals how the author’s parents struggled as Soviet dissidents

October 2018

  • Jesse Ball, author

    Jesse Ball's 'strange and beautiful' Census wins Gordon Burn prize

    Judges praise fable inspired by the author’s late brother as perfect match for prize’s ambition to reward writing ‘that dares to enter history’

October 2016

  • David Szalay.

    David Szalay's 'unsparing' All That Man Is wins Gordon Burn prize

    Booker-shortlisted author’s novel takes £5,000 award for its ‘darkly funny, marvellously observant’ stories

August 2016

  • Colin Grant, author of A Smell of Burning

    A Smell of Burning: The Story of Epilepsy by Colin Grant – review

    An extraordinary, tender memoir about a beloved brother with epilepsy – a condition still beset by superstition and myth

October 2015

  • immy Savile in 2007.

    Paperback writer
    'Jimmy Savile was supremely controlling – of people and his myth'

  • FILE - DPP Announce Review Of 2009 CPS Decision Not To Prosecute Jimmy Saville

    Books blog
    Why it’s right that a Jimmy Savile biography won this year’s Gordon Burn prize

October 2013

  • Gordon Burn

    Benjamin Myers claims inaugural Gordon Burn prize

    Durham-born author's Pig Iron wins £5,000 award established to celebrate work echoing the 'fearless, interrogative' spirit of Burn
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