Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 winner announced

5 November 2014 Books+Publishing

Helen Macdonald’s H is For Hawk (Jonathan Cape) has become the first memoir to win the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, worth £20,000 (A$36,556), reports the Bookseller. Author and chair of the judging panel Claire Tomalin said Macdonald ‘has written a book unlike any other, about an obsession with a wild creature, brought to life in prose sometimes technical and always striking, and set in English landscapes observed with a visionary eye’. Macdonald’s memoir documents her attempts to train a wild hawk following the death of her father. To view the shortlist for the award, click here. For more information visit the website here.

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