The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction were financial awards made to assist new writers of non-fiction to carry out new research, and/or to devote more time to writing.
The awards were 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.
In 2017 the awards were replaced by the
Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction.
Recipients
2016
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Violet Moller for ''The Geography of Knowledge'', Pan Macmillan (£10k)
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Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch (born 1981) is a British writer and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist for '' The Guardian'' newspaper, and was the Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News from 2014 until 2017.
Early life
Afua Hirsch was born in ...
for ''Brit(ish): Getting Under the Skin of Britain's Race Problem'', Cape (£5k)
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Damian Le Bas (writer) for ''Stopping Places'', Chatto (£5k)
2015
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Thomas Morris for ''The Matter of the Heart'', Bodley Head (£10k)
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Catherine Nixey for ''
The Darkening Age'', MacMillan (£5k)
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Duncan White
Major Deshamanya Duncan M. White MBE, ED (1 March 1918 – 3 July 1998) was a Sri Lankan sportsman. He was the first Ceylonese athlete to win an Olympic medal, winning silver in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, Eng ...
for ''Cold Warriors: Waging Literary War Across the Iron Curtain'', Little, Brown (£5k)
2014
* Laurence Scott for ''The Four-Dimensional Human'', Heinemann (£10k)
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Minoo Dinshaw for ''A Life of Sir Steven Runciman'', Penguin (£5k)
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Aida Edemariam for ''The Wife's Tale'', 4th Estate (£5k)
2013
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Tom Burgis for ''The Looting Machine'', William Collins (£10k)
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Julian Mash for ''Portobello Road: Dispatches from the Street'', Frances Lincoln (£5k)
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Corri Waitt for ''The Wisdom of Chickens'', Quercus (£5k)
2012
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Ramita Navai for ''City of Lies: The Undercover Truth About Tehran'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson (£10k)
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Edmund Gordon for ''Angela Carter: The Biography'', Chatto (£5k)
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Gwen Adshead
Gwen Adshead (born 1960) is a forensic psychotherapist, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Gresham College, Jochelson visiting professor at the Yale School of Law and Psychiatry, and consultant forensic psychiatrist at Ravenswood House.
At the ...
for ''A Short Book About Evil'', Jessica Kingsley (£5k)
2011
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James Macdonald Lockhart for Raptor: ''A Journey Through Britain's Birds of Prey'', Fourth Estate (£10k)
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Gerard Russell for ''Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms'', Simon & Schuster (£5k)
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Helen Smith for ''Edward Garnett: The Uncommon Reader'', Jonathan Cape (£5k)
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Polly Morland for ''The Society of Timid Souls, or How to Be Brave'', Profile (£2k)
2010
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Alexander Monro for ''The Paper Trail'', Penguin (£10k)
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Roger Beam for ''Englandspiel'', Haynes (£5k)
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Jonathan Beckman for ''Cardinal Sins: Marie Antoinette and the Affair of the Necklace'', Fourth Estate (£5k)
2009
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Caspar Henderson for ''The Book of Barely Imagined Beings'', Granta (£10k)
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Miles Hollingworth for ''St Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography'', Continuum (£5k)
* Selina Mills for ''Life Unseen: The Story of Blindness'', IB Tauris (£5k)
2008
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Rachel Hewitt for ''Map of a Nation'', Granta (£10k)
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Matthew Hollis for ''Edward Thomas:The Final Years'', Faber (£5k)
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Paul Farley and
Michael Symmons Roberts
Michael Symmons Roberts FRSL (born 1963 in Preston, Lancashire) is a British poet.
He has published eight collections of poetry, all with Cape (Random House), and has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetr ...
for ''Edgelands – Journeys into England’s Last Wilderness'', Cape (£2.5k each)
2007
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Andrew Stott for ''The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi'', Canongate (£10k)
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston for ''Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer'', Bloomsbury (£5k)
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Daniel Swift for ''A Terrible Fury'', Hamish Hamilton (£5k)
2006
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Carolyn Steel for ''Hungry City'', Chatto (£10k)
* Sarah Irving for ''Natural Science and the Origins of British Empire'', Pickering & Chatto (£5k)
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Thomas Wright for ''Oscar’s Books'', Chatto (£5k)
2005
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Alice Albinia
Alice Albinia (born 1976) is an English journalist and author whose first book, '' Empires of the Indus'', won several awards.
Albinia was born in London and read English Literature at Cambridge University and South Asian History at SOAS. In b ...
for ''
Empires of the Indus'', John Murray (£12,500)
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Christopher Turner
Christopher Turner is a British writer. He has been a regular contributor to ''Cabinet'' magazine since 2004, and to the '' London Review of Books'' since 2001. He has also written for ''The Guardian'' and '' The Sunday Telegraph'', and is the e ...
for ''Adventures in the Orgasmatron'', Fourth Estate (£10k)
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Druin Burch for ''Digging Up the Dead'', Chatto (£5k)
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Matthew Green for ''The Wizard of the Nile'', Portobello (£5k)
2004
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Jim Endersby for ''A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology'', Heinemann (£10k)
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Roland Chambers for ''The Last Englishman – The Double Life of Arthur Ransome'', Faber (£5k)
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John Stubbs for ''John Donne: The Reformed Soul'', Viking (£5k)
References
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Royal Society of Literature awards
Awards established in 2004
2004 establishments in the United Kingdom
British non-fiction literary awards
Literary awards honoring unpublished books or writers