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

2016

  • 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

2014

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

2007

  • 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

  • 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

2004

  • 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

  1. ↑ "The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction". Royal Society of Literature.
  2. ↑ "Jerwood Annual Reports 2016" (PDF). Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "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.
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