Sir Israel Gollancz Prize is awarded biannually by the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

in honour of

Israel Gollancz Sir Israel Gollancz, FBA (13 July 1863 – 23 June 1930) was a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare. He was Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, London, from 1903 to 1930. Gollancz was born 13 July ...

, a founder member and its first secretary, since 1924. Originally named "Biennial Prize for English Literature" and renamed after Gollancz's death in 1930, the award was established on the initiative of

Frida Mond Frida Mond (1847–1923) was a German-born patron of the arts, who gave significant bequests to the British Academy and King's College London, during her lifetime and upon her death. Life Frida Mond was born Frederike Löwenthal in Cologne, Ge ...

. It is awarded to scholars of Old and Early English language and literature and history of the English language.

Winners

* 1925:

Joseph Wright Joseph Wright may refer to: *Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), English painter *Joseph Wright (American painter) (1756–1793), American portraitist *Joseph Wright (fl. 1837/1845), whose company, Messrs. Joseph Wright and Sons, became the Metro ...

* 1927:

R. W. Chambers Raymond Wilson Chambers (12 November 1874 – 23 April 1942) was a British literary scholar, author, librarian and academic; throughout his career he was associated with University College London (UCL). Life Chambers was educated at Univer ...

* 1929: Professor

Allen Mawer Sir Allen Mawer (8 May 1879 − 22 July 1942) was an English philologist. A notable researcher of Viking activity in the British Isles, Mawer is best known as the founder of the English Place-Name Society, and as Provost (education), Provost ...

* 1931: H. C. K. Wyld * 1933: C. T. Onions * 1935: Sir W. A. Craigie * 1937:

C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge Univers ...

* 1939: J. M. Manly * 1941: Karl Young * ''1943–1950: No award'' * 1951:

Dorothy Whitelock Dorothy Whitelock, (11 November 1901 – 14 August 1982) was an English historian. From 1957 to 1969, she was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge. Her best-known work is ''English Historical ...

* 1953:

Kenneth Sisam Kenneth Sisam (2 September 1887 – 26 August 1971) was a New Zealand academic and publisher, whose major career was as an employee of the Oxford University Press. Life Born at Ōpōtiki in 1887, Sisam was the eighth and youngest child of Alfred ...

* 1955:

Bruce Dickins Bruce Dickins, FBA (26 October 1889 – 4 January 1978), a graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, was Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds from 1931 to 1946 (where he succeeded E. V. Gordon), teaching medieval English and Ol ...

* 1957: Florence Harmer * 1959:

Neil Ker Neil Ripley Ker (; 1908–1982) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature. He was Reader in Palaeography at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford until he retired in 1968. He is known especially for his ''Catalogue of M ...

* 1963: George Kane * 1965:

Albert Hugh Smith Albert Hugh Smith OBE (24 February 1903 – 11 May 1967) was a scholar of Old English and Scandinavian languages and played a major part in the study and publication of English place-names. Hugh Smith was the son of Albert John Smith, a butler ...

* 1969: Kenneth Cameron * 1971: Phyllis Hodgson * 1981: A. J. Aitken * 1985: Anne Hudson * 1987: Bruce Mitchell * 1989: Angus McIntosh * 1991: Anne Hudson * 1995: H. Leith Spencer * 1997: Fred Robinson * 1999: George Kane (2nd award) * 2001:

Malcolm Godden Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1991 until 2013. From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B.A. in Englis ...

and

Peter Clemoes Peter Alan Martin Clemoes (20 January 1920 – 16 March 1996) was a British historian. Born in Southend-on-Sea and educated at Brentwood School, he originally wished to become an actor and won a scholarship to RADA but the Second World War in ...

* 2003: Robert Lewis * 2005: Patrick P. O'Neill * 2007:

William James Simpson James Simpson (born 16 March 1954 in Melbourne) is an Australian-British-American medievalist currently serving as the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. Education * Educated at Scotch College (1966– ...

* 2009:

Michael Lapidge Michael Lapidge, FBA (born 8 February 1942) is a scholar in the field of Medieval Latin literature, particularly that composed in Anglo-Saxon England during the period 600–1100 AD; he is an emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, a Fellow of ...

* 2011:

Jill Mann Gillian Lesley "Jill" Mann, FBA (born 7 April 1943), is a scholar known for her work on medieval literature, especially on Middle English and Medieval Latin. Education and career Mann was born in York, where her father was engaged in war work, b ...

* 2013: Leslie Lockett * 2015: Ralph Hanna * 2017:

Helmut Gneuss Helmut Gneuss (born 29 October 1927) is a German scholar of Anglo-Saxon and Latin manuscripts and literature. Academic career Gneuss is emeritus professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he occupied the chair for English lang ...

* 2019: David Wallace "for his lifetime contribution into the study of Chaucer and Medieval English literature" * 2021: Richard Dance, Sara Pons-Sanz, and Brittany Schorn (The Gersum Project), "for its innovative contribution to the study of the etymology of Middle English"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Israel Gollancz Prize British literary awards British Academy Awards established in 1924 1924 establishments in the United Kingdom Biennial events Medieval studies

Winners

See also

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