Jerwood Award
The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction are financial awards made to assist new writers of non-fiction to carry out new research, to devote more time to writing.[1] The award is 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.[2]
Recipients
2013
- Tom Burgis[disambiguation needed] 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 & Nicholson (£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: An Intellectual Biography", Continuum (£5k)
- Selina Mills for "Life Unseen: How Blindness Shaped the West", IB Tauris (£5k)
2008
- 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
- Andrew Stott for The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Canongate (£10k)
- Rachel Campbell-Johnston for Life 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
- 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
- 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 Reformed Soul - the Life of John Donne, Viking (£5k)
References
- ^ "The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction". Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Retrieved 2010-01-17. [dead link]
- ^ "The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 2010-01-17.