Jerwood Award
The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction[1] were financial awards made to assist new writers of non-fiction to carry out new research, and/or to devote more time to writing.[2] The awards were administrated by the Royal Society of Literature on behalf of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Recipients must have a publishing contract and be citizens of either the UK or Ireland, or have been residents in one of these for at least the last three years.[3]
In 2017, the awards were replaced by the Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction.[4]
Recipients
[edit]2016
[edit]- Violet Moller for The Geography of Knowledge, Pan Macmillan (£10k)
- Afua Hirsch for Brit(ish): Getting Under the Skin of Britain's Race Problem, Cape (£5k)
- Damian Le Bas (writer) for Stopping Places, Chatto (£5k)
2015
[edit]- Thomas Morris for The Matter of the Heart, Bodley Head (£10k)
- Catherine Nixey for The Darkening Age, MacMillan (£5k)
- Duncan White for Cold Warriors: Waging Literary War Across the Iron Curtain, Little, Brown (£5k)
2014
[edit]- Laurence Scott for The Four-Dimensional Human, Heinemann (£10k)
- Minoo Dinshaw for A Life of Sir Steven Runciman, Penguin (£5k)
- Aida Edemariam for The Wife's Tale, 4th Estate (£5k)
2013
[edit]- Tom Burgis for The Looting Machine, William Collins (£10k)
- Julian Mash for Portobello Road: Dispatches from the Street, Frances Lincoln (£5k)
- Corri Waitt for The Wisdom of Chickens, Quercus (£5k)
2012
[edit]- Ramita Navai for City of Lies: The Undercover Truth About Tehran, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (£10k)
- Edmund Gordon for Angela Carter: The Biography, Chatto (£5k)
- Gwen Adshead for A Short Book About Evil, Jessica Kingsley (£5k)
2011
[edit]- James Macdonald Lockhart for Raptor: A Journey Through Britain's Birds of Prey, Fourth Estate (£10k)
- Gerard Russell for Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, Simon & Schuster (£5k)
- Helen Smith for Edward Garnett: The Uncommon Reader, Jonathan Cape (£5k)
- Polly Morland for The Society of Timid Souls, or How to Be Brave, Profile (£2k)
2010
[edit]- Alexander Monro for The Paper Trail, Penguin (£10k)
- Roger Beam for Englandspiel, Haynes (£5k)
- Jonathan Beckman for Cardinal Sins: Marie Antoinette and the Affair of the Necklace, Fourth Estate (£5k)
2009
[edit]- Caspar Henderson for The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta (£10k)
- Miles Hollingworth for St Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography, Continuum (£5k)
- Selina Mills for Life Unseen: The Story of Blindness, IB Tauris (£5k)
2008
[edit]- Rachel Hewitt for Map of a Nation, Granta (£10k)
- Matthew Hollis for Edward Thomas:The Final Years, Faber (£5k)
- Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts for Edgelands – Journeys into England’s Last Wilderness, Cape (£2.5k each)
2007
[edit]- Andrew Stott for The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Canongate (£10k)
- Rachel Campbell-Johnston for Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer, Bloomsbury (£5k)
- Daniel Swift for A Terrible Fury, Hamish Hamilton (£5k)
2006
[edit]- Carolyn Steel for Hungry City, Chatto (£10k)
- Sarah Irving for Natural Science and the Origins of British Empire, Pickering & Chatto (£5k)
- Thomas Wright for Oscar’s Books, Chatto (£5k)
2005
[edit]- Alice Albinia for Empires of the Indus, John Murray (£12,500)
- Christopher Turner for Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Fourth Estate (£10k)
- Druin Burch for Digging Up the Dead, Chatto (£5k)
- Matthew Green for The Wizard of the Nile, Portobello (£5k)
2004
[edit]- Jim Endersby for A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology, Heinemann (£10k)
- Roland Chambers for The Last Englishman – The Double Life of Arthur Ransome, Faber (£5k)
- John Stubbs for John Donne: The Reformed Soul, Viking (£5k)
References
[edit]- ^ "The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction". Royal Society of Literature.
- ^ "Jerwood Annual Reports 2016" (PDF). Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
- ^ "The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 22 January 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
- ^ "The Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction | Writer's exceptional legacy secures future of non-fiction award". rsliterature.org. The Royal Society for Literature. Retrieved 17 December 2023.