Margaret Atwood, Evelyn Schlag and Jackie Morris are to receive Hay Festival Medals
Awarded annually since Britain’s Olympic year (2012), and crafted locally by silversmith Christopher Hamilton, the Hay Festival Medals draw inspiration from the original Olympic medal given for poetry.
Margaret Atwood will be awarded the Hay Festival Medal for Prose for a lifetime of ingenious and visionary fiction; the Medal for Poetry is awarded to the Austrian poet Evelyn Schlag for her contribution to the festival’s upcoming Armistice anthology; and the Medal for Illustration is awarded to artist Jackie Morris for her collaboration with Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Words, a work of luminous beauty celebrating the natural world and Hay Festival Book of the Year 2017.
Hay Festival Medal recipients, 2012 – 2018:
2018 Medal for Prose – Margaret Atwood Medal for Poetry – Evelyn Schlag Medal for Illustration – Jackie Morris
2017 Medal for Drama – Daniel Morden Medal for Prose – Philippe Sands Medal for Fiction – Cressida Cowell Medal for Festivals – Ahdaf Soueif
2016 Medal for Drama – Gregory Doran Medal for Poetry – Gillian Clarke Medal for Prose – Janine di Giovanni Medal for Song – Laura Marling
2015 Medal for Drama – Alan Bennett Medal for Education – Germaine Greer Medal for Illustration – Chris Riddell Medal for Prose – Robert MacFarlane
2014 Medal for Drama – Hans Rosenfeldt Medal for Prose – Karl Ove Knausgaard Medal for Illustration – Oliver Jeffers
2013 Medal for Fiction – John le Carre Medal for Poetry – Owen Sheers Medal for Drama – Miranda Hart
2012 Medal for Drama – Abi Morgan Medal for Poetry – Simon Armitage Medal for Prose – Jeanette Winterson