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Published by: Wydawnictwo Czarne
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Language: Polish
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Translated by: Hanna Jankowska
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Cover desinged by: Agnieszka Pasierska/Pracownia Papierówka
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Edition: 1
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Size: 133 mm × 215 mm
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ISBN: 978-83-8049-297-4
The Society for Wild Animals “Falcon” is a partner of the Polish edition
Content
H is for Hawk tells Macdonald's story of the year she spent training a goshawk in the wake of her father's death. Her father, Alisdair Macdonald, was a respected photojournalist who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2007. Having been a falconer for many years, she purchased a young goshawk to help her through the grieving process.
Reception
The book reached the The Sunday Times best-seller list within two weeks of being published in July 2014.
In an interview with The Guardian, Macdonald said, "While the backbone of the book is a memoir about that year when I lost my father and trained a hawk, there are also other things tangled up in that story which are not memoir. There is the shadow biography of TH White, and a lot of nature-writing, too. I was trying to let these different genres speak to each other."
Judges of the Samuel Johnson Prize specifically highlighted that marriage of genres as one of the reasons for selecting H is for Hawk as the winner.
Awards and honours
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2014 Samuel Johnson Prize, winner
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2014 Costa Book of the Year, winner
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2014 Duff Cooper Prize, shortlist
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2015 Thwaites Wainwright Prize, longlist
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2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, shortlist
(source: wikipedia.org)
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