Saturday, March 19, 2011

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE JERWOOD AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION

The latest Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction – three awards open to authors working on their first major commissioned works of non-fiction – have been presented to Alexander Monro, Roger Beam and Jonathan Beckman. The 2010 awards were presented at a celebratory party, held on Thursday night at Jerwood Space, by the year’s assessors,
Claire Armitstead, Tristram Hunt MP and Robert Macfarlane.

Alexander Monro (left) received a cheque for £10,000 for The Paper Trail – a journey through politics and religion, tracing the story of paper from its invention in China two thousand years ago to the printing explosion that galvanized Europe fifteen hundred years on, due from Penguin Press later this year.

Of two £5,000 awards, one was presented to Roger Beam for Englandspiel, an investigation into a little-known but long-running intelligence disaster suffered by Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) in WW2, due from Haynes Publishing later this year.

The second £5,000 award was presented to Jonathan Beckman for Cardinal Sins– Marie Antoinette and the Affair of the Necklace, an account of the scandalous theft of Europe’s most expensive piece of jewellery shortly before the French Revolution, to be published by Fourth Estate in 2013.

For further information http://www.rslit.org/.

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