2025Nominee
Best Writing
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
Actor · Writer
Biography
Helen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer, naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. They are best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award; in 2016, it won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Macdonald is the child of British photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald. Macdonald is non-binary and uses she/they pronouns.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2017Nominee
Best Performance
H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter
2019Nominee
Best Performance
The River: A Year in the Life of the Tay
Career Highlights
2020Highlight
Best Performance
The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway