Hatchet Job of the Year was a British journalism award given annually from 2012 to 2014 to "the writer of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months".
[1] It was awarded by The Omnivore, a review aggregator website,[2] with the aim to "raise the profile of professional critics and to promote integrity and wit in literary journalism".
[1] The prize was a year's supply of potted shrimp.
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