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Gordon Burn prize
All the latest news about the Gordon Burn prize for books.
March 2024
Kathryn Scanlan: Gordon Burn prize winner on pushing the boundaries of fiction
Kathryn Scanlan wins Gordon Burn prize for novel Kick the Latch
January 2024
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
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
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 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
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'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'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'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
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
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'Jimmy Savile was supremely controlling – of people and his myth'
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Why it’s right that a Jimmy Savile biography won this year’s Gordon Burn prize
October 2013
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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