Jerwood Award

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]

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Recipients

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 Birch 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

  1. ^ "The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction". Jerwood Charitable Foundation. http://www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org/?lid=413. Retrieved 2010-01-17. [dead link]
  2. ^ "The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/jerwood. Retrieved 2010-01-17. 

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