Jerwood Award

The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction were financial awards made to assist new writers of non-fiction to carry out new research, and/or to devote more time to writing.[1] 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.[2]

In 2017 the awards were replaced by the Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction. [3]

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
  • 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
  • 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)
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References
  1. "The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction". Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
  2. "The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 2010-01-22. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
  3. "Writer's exceptional legacy secures future of non-fiction award" (PDF) (Press release).
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