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Non-fiction literature prize
The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction
[1] were financial awards made to assist new writers of non-fiction to carry out new research, and/or to devote more time to writing.
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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.
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In 2017, the awards were replaced by the
Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction .
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Recipients
2016
2015
2014
Laurence Scott for The Four-Dimensional Human , Heinemann (£10k)
Minoo Dinshaw for A Life of Sir Steven Runciman , Penguin (£5k)
Aida Edemariam for The Wife's Tale , 4th Estate (£5k)
2013
Tom Burgis for The Looting Machine , William Collins (£10k)
Julian Mash for Portobello Road: Dispatches from the Street , Frances Lincoln (£5k)
Corri Waitt for The Wisdom of Chickens , Quercus (£5k)
2012
Ramita Navai for City of Lies: The Undercover Truth About Tehran , Weidenfeld & Nicolson (£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
2009
Caspar Henderson for The Book of Barely Imagined Beings , Granta (£10k)
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
2007
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
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 John Donne: The Reformed Soul , Viking (£5k)
References