Dolman Best Travel Book Award

Dolman Best Travel Book Award

The Dolman Best Travel Book Award is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers.[1] The other award is that made each year by the British Guild of Travel Writers, but that is limited to authors who are members of the Guild.

The first Dolman award was given in 2006, just two years after the only other travel book award - the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award which ran for 25 years - was abandoned by its sponsor.[1] The £1,000 to £2,500 prize, organized by the Authors' Club, is sponsored by and named after club member William Dolman.[1][2]

Awards

Each year a small number of works are shortlisted and a winner is announced in early July at a dinner gala with the authors and publishers in attendance.

Blueribbon icon.png = winner

2011

  • Nicolas Jubber, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan
  • Blueribbon icon.png Rachel Polonsky, Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History
  • Katherine Russell Rich, Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
  • Graham Robb, Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
  • Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
  • Simon Winder, Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History

2010[3]

  • William Blacker, Along the Enchanted Way
  • Horatio Clare, A Single Swallow
  • Matthew Engel, Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain
  • Daniel Metcalfe, Out of Steppe
  • Susan Richards, Lost and Found in Russia
  • Hugh Thomson, Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico
  • Blueribbon icon.png Ian Thomson, The Dead Yard


2009[4]

  • Blueribbon icon.png Alice Albinia, Empires of the Indus
  • Andrew Brown, Fishing in Utopia
  • Richard Grant, Bandit Roads
  • Kapka Kassabova, Street Without a Name
  • Grevel Lindop, Travels on the Dance Floor
  • Dervla Murphy, The Island that Dared

2008

  • Tim Butcher, Blood River
  • Henry Hemming, Misadventure in the Middle East
  • Blueribbon icon.png John Lucas, 92 Acharnon Street
  • Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places
  • Christopher Robbins, In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared

2007

  • Rory McCarthy, Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated
  • David McKie, Great British Bus Journeys
  • Tom Parry, Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback
  • Blueribbon icon.png Claire Scobie, Last Seen in Lhasa

2006

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008", Michael Kerr. July 7, 2008. The Telegraph.
  2. ^ "Suicide by cop" coroner retires, a brief bio of Dolman, December 2007.
  3. ^ Ian Thomson wins 2010 Dolman Travel Book of the Year, 7 July 2010
  4. ^ Street Without a Name shortlisted for Authors’ Club Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2009, 8 June 2009

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