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 2007 RSL/Jerwood Awards announced

The judges for the 2007 RSL/Jerwood Awards were Hermione Lee, John Stubbs and Sara Wheeler.

The winners of the 2007 Awards were:

The £10,000 award goes to Andrew Stott, who is writing a biography of the Regency clown, Joseph Grimaldi, to be published by Canongate.

A £5,000 award goes to Rachel Campbell-Johnston who is working on a biography of the artist Samuel Palmer, to be published by Bloomsbury.

A £5,000 award goes to Daniel Swift who is working on A Terrible Fury — a book on the area bombing campaigns of the Second World War, looking at their emotional impact through the poetry written in response, and the story of his grandfather, a bomber pilot who died in June 1943, to be published by Hamish Hamilton.

Past Winners

John Stubbs won an RSL/Jerwood Award in 2004 when he was working on his biography of John Donne ©