The Royal Society of Literature administers the following prizes and awards:
The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction
The Royal Society of Literature and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation offer three annual awards, one of £10,000 and two of £5,000, to authors engaged on their first major commissioned works of non-fiction.
The 2011 Awards
The assessors for the 2011 Awards are Andrew Holgate, Mark Lawson and Christopher Potter.
Winners will be announced in February.
Past recipients
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Year |
Recipient |
Title | ||||
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| 2010 | Alexander Monro | The Paper Trail, Penguin (£10k) | ||||
| Roger Beam |
Englandspiel, Haynes (£5k) | |||||
| Jonathan Beckman |
Cardinal Sins - Marie Antoinette and the Affair of the Necklace, Fourth Estate (£5k) | |||||
| Judges: Claire Armitstead, Tristam Hunt MP and Robert Macfarlane | ||||||
| 2009 | Caspar Henderson | The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta (£10k) | ||||
| Miles Hollingworth | St Augustine: an Intellectual Biography, Continuum (£5k) | |||||
| Selina Mills | Life Unseen: How Blindness Shaped the West, IB Tauris (£5k) | |||||
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Judges: Mark Bostridge, Ferdinand Mount and Claire Tomalin |
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| 2008 | Rachel Hewitt | Map of a Nation, Granta (£10k) | ||||
| Matthew Hollis | Edward Thomas:The Final Years, Faber (£5k) | |||||
| Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts | Edgelands – Journeys into England’s Last Wilderness, Cape (£2.5k each) | |||||
| Judges: Alice Albinia, Piers Brendon and James Meek | ||||||
| 2007 |
Andrew Stott |
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Canongate (£10k) | ||||
| Rachel Campbell-Johnston |
Life of Samuel Palmer, Bloomsbury (£5k) | |||||
| Daniel Swift |
Bomber County, Hamish Hamilton (£5k) | |||||
| Judges: Hermione Lee, John Stubbs and Sara Wheeler |
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| 2006 |
Carolyn Steel |
Hungry City, Chatto (£10k) | ||||
| Sarah Irving |
Natural Science and the Origins of British Empire, Pickering & Chatto (£5k) | |||||
| Thomas Wright |
Oscar’s Books, Chatto (£5k) | |||||
| Judges: Roland Chambers, Moris Farhi and Hilary Spurling |
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| 2005 |
Alice Albinia |
Empires of the Indus, John Murray (£12,500) | ||||
| Christopher Turner |
Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Fourth Estate (£10k) | |||||
| Druin Birch |
Digging Up the Dead, Chatto (£5k) | |||||
| Matthew Green |
The Wizard of the Nile, Portobello (£5k) | |||||
| Judges: Brenda Maddox, Peter Parker and Matthew Parris |
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| 2004 |
Jim Endersby |
A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology, Heinemann (£10k) | ||||
| Roland Chambers |
The Last Englishman – The Double Life of Arthur Ransome, Faber (£5k) | |||||
| John Stubbs |
Donne – the Reformed Soul, Viking (£5k) | |||||
| Judges: Michael Holroyd, Libby Purves and D.J. Taylor |