Gordon Burn Prize 2017

The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017.

Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
The Long Drop by Denise Mina
This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan
This Is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson

The winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 will be announced at Durham Book Festival on Thursday 12 October 2017.

The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2018 is:
◾Census, Jesse Ball (Granta Books)
◾H(a)ppy, Nicola Barker (William Heinemann)
◾In Our Mad and Furious City, Guy Gunaratne (Tinder Press, Headline)
◾Crudo, Olivia Laing (Picador)
◾The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton)
◾I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara (Faber & Faber)

Census by Jesse Ball has won the Gordon Burn Prize 2018.

The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019 is:

For the Good Times, David Keenan

Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo

Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Lanny, Max Porter

The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker

This Brutal House, Niven Govinden

For the Good Times, David Keenan won

2020 Shortlist and winner

Notes Made While Falling, Jenn Ashworth

Rainbow Milk, Paul Mendez

Motherwell: A Girlhood, Deborah Orr

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, Peter Pomerantsev, winner

My Name Is Why, Lemn Sissay

Three Women, Lisa Taddeo

2021 shortlist and winner

A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa

A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib, winner

Come Join Our Disease, Sam Byers

Luckenbooth, Jenni Fagan

Mrs Death Misses Death, Salena Godden

Sea State, Tabitha Lasley