Hessell-Tiltman_Prize

PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize

PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize

Award

The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize is awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content covering a period up to and including World War II, and published in the year of the award. The books are to be of high literary merit, but not primarily academic. The prize is organized by the English PEN. Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the 1960s and 1970s; on her death in 1999 she bequeathed £100,000 to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name.[1] Each year's winner receives £2,000.[1]

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by PEN International affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Winners and shortlist

A blue ribbon (Blue ribbon) denotes the winner.

2000s

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

  • Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
  • Philipp Blom, The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900–1914
  • Leo Hollis, The Phoenix: St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
  • Frederick Spotts, The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
  • Blue ribbon Clair Wills, That Neutral Island

2009

  • Blue ribbon Mark Thompson, The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919

2010s

2010

2011

  • Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: an Epic History of Two Nations Divided
  • Philip Mansel, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe in the Mediterranean
  • Roger Moorhouse, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939–1945
  • Blue ribbon Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra[2]

2012

2013

  • Jerry Brotton, A History of the World in Twelve Maps
  • Chris Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
  • Nigel Cliff, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
  • Jonathan Dimbleby, Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein
  • Blue ribbon Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II[3]
  • Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea

2014

2015

  • Mark Bostridge, The Fateful Year: England 1914
  • Blue ribbon Jessie Childs, God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
  • Ronald Hutton, Pagan Britain
  • Robert Tombs, The English and Their History
  • Jenny Uglow, In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars

2016

2017

The shortlist was announced 7 June 2017.[6] The winner was announced 10 July.[7]

2018

The shortlist was announced 22 March 2018.[8] The winner was announced 24 June 2018.[9]

2019

The winner was announced 4 December 2019.[10]

  • Blue ribbon Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library

2020s

2020

The shortlist was announced on 29 October 2020.[11] The winner was announced on 1 December 2020.[12]

2021

The shortlist was announced on 14 October 2021 and the winner on 7 December.[13][14]

2022

The shortlist was announced on 7 October 2022.[15]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize - English PEN". English PEN. Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. [2]
    Brenda Maddox (8 April 2011). "What Fuels Our Appetite for War?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  3. [3]
    Felicity Capon (8 April 2013). "Keith Lowe awarded the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  4. [4]
    Timothy R. Smith (9 April 2014). "David Reynolds wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize". Washington Post. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  5. [5]
    Natasha Onwuemezi (1 April 2016). "Stargardt wins the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize 2016". The Bookseller. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  6. [6]
    Katherine Cowdrey (7 June 2017). "'Satisfying' PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize shortlist revealed". The Bookseller. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  7. [7]
    Robert Sharp (10 July 2017). "David Olusoga wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017 for Black and British". English PEN. Archived from the original on 30 March 2020.
  8. [8]
    "PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2018 shortlist announced". English PEN. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  9. [9]
    "S.A. Smith wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2018". English PEN. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  10. [10]
    "Edward Wilson-Lee wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2019". English PEN. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  11. [11]
    "The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2020 shortlist". englishpen.org. 29 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  12. [12]
    "Anita Anand wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2020". englishpen.org. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  13. [13]
    "The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2021 shortlist". 14 October 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  14. [14]
    "Rebecca Wragg Sykes wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021". Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  15. [15]
    "The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2022 shortlist". 7 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  16. [16]
    "Francesca Stavrakopoulou wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022".
  17. [17]
    "Francesca Stavrakopoulou wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022".
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