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]

Recipients

2012

• Ramita Navai for City of Lies: The Undercover Truth About Tehran, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (£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: An Intellectual Biography", Continuum (£5k)
• Selina Mills for "Life Unseen: How Blindness Shaped the West", IB Tauris (£5k)

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 Burch 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