Ondaatje Prize
Appearance
Ondaatje Prize | |
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Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize | |
Awarded for | work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, "evoking the spirit of a place" |
Sponsored by | Sir Christopher Ondaatje |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | Royal Society of Literature |
First awarded | 2004 |
Website | Official website |
The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature. The £10,000 award is for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that evokes the "spirit of a place", and is written by someone who is a citizen of or who has been resident in the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.[1]
The prize bears the name of its benefactor Sir Christopher Ondaatje.[2] The prize incorporates the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, which was presented up to 2002 for regional fiction.[3]
Winners
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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2004 | Louisa Waugh | Hearing Birds Fly | |
2005 | Rory Stewart | The Places In Between | |
2006 | James Meek | The People's Act of Love | [4] |
2007 | Hisham Matar | In the Country of Men | [5] |
2008 | Graham Robb | The Discovery of France | [6] |
2009 | Adam Nicolson | Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History | [7] |
2010 | Ian Thomson | The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica | [8] |
2011 | Edmund de Waal | The Hare with Amber Eyes | [9] |
2012 | Rahul Bhattacharya | The Sly Company of People Who Care | [10] |
2013 | Philip Hensher | Scenes from Early Life | [11] |
2014 | Alan Johnson | This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood | [12] |
2015 | Justin Marozzi | Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood | [13] |
2016 | Peter Pomerantsev | Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia | [14] |
2017 | Francis Spufford | Golden Hill | [15] |
2018 | Pascale Petit | Mama Amazonica | [16] |
2019 | Aida Edemariam | The Wife’s Tale | [17] |
2020 | Roger Robinson | A Portable Paradise | [18] |
2021 | Ruth Gilligan | The Butchers (also published as The Butchers' Blessing) | [19] |
2022 | Lea Ypi | Free. Coming of Age at the End of History | [20] |
2023 | Anthony Anaxagorou | Heritage Aesthetics | [21] |
References
[edit]- ^ "RSL Ondaatje Prize". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ "Christopher Ondaatje homepage". Retrieved 16 January 2010.
- ^ Jury, Louise (6 April 2004). "Gulag book shortlisted for Ondaatje Prize". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
- ^ Pauli, Michelle (23 May 2006). "Guardian writer wins Ondaatje prize for Russian civil war novel". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Lea, Richard (3 May 2007). "Matar's tale of latterday Libya takes Ondaatje prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Dammann, Guy (29 April 2008). "£10,000 reward for The Discovery of France". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Flood, Alison (19 May 2009). "'Powerfully evocative' family history wins Ondaatje prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Flood, Alison (25 May 2010). "Ian Thomson wins £10,000 Ondaatje prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Flood, Allison (24 May 2011). "Ondaatje prize goes to Edmund de Waal". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
- ^ Flood, Alison (29 May 2012). "2012 Ondaatje prize 2012 goes to debut novel by Rahul Bhattacharya". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ^ Armitstead, Claire (14 May 2013). "Philip Hensher wins Ondaatje prize with novel on husband's childhood". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Flood, Alison (20 May 2014). "Alan Johnson's memoir of London slum childhood wins £10,000 Ondaatje prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Kerr, Michael (19 May 2015). "Justin Marozzi wins £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Cain, Sian (23 May 2016). "'Anti-travelogue' on Putin's Russia wins £10,000 Ondaatje prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ Kean, Danuta (8 May 2017). "Francis Spufford wins the Ondaatje prize with Golden Hill". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
- ^ Flood, Alison (14 May 2018). "Ondaatje prize goes to 'mythic' poems about a mother's mental illness". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
- ^ Flood, Alison (13 May 2019). "Ondaatje prize: Aida Edemariam wins for vivid biography of her grandmother". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- ^ Flood, Alison (4 May 2020). "Roger Robinson's poems of Trinidad and London win Ondaatje prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ Flood, Alison (11 May 2021). "The Butchers: novel set in Irish BSE crisis wins Ondaatje prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "LEA YPI announced as winner of the 2022 RSL Ondaatje Prize for "Free"" (PDF). Royal Society of Literature. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ Creamer, Ella (10 May 2023). "Anthony Anaxagorou wins Ondaatje prize for collection of postcolonial poetry". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 May 2023.