The three awards available, one of £10,000 and two of £5,000, are awarded to authors working on their first commissioned works of non-fiction. The 2013 winners are:
£10,000 to Tom Burgis for The Looting Machine, an exploration of the corruption, killings and exploitation associated with West Africa’s oil and mining industries (to be published by HarperCollins in June 2015). Richard Holmes enjoyed ‘a vivid, personal account of perilous journeys and discoveries, written with great passion and conviction’. Tom Burgis is a journalist currently working on investigations for the Financial Times. He has won awards for his African reporting, including the 2013 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Award, Best Business News Story for coverage of a fight for mining rights in Guinea. He lives in East London.
£5,000 to Julian Mash for Portobello Road: Dispatches from the Street, an exploration of Notting Hill’s famous street (to be published by Frances Lincoln in Autumn 2014). Kathryn Hughes thought it ‘an elegant, exuberant account of one of London’s most storied streets’. Julian Mash is manager of the Idler Academy bookshop and literary events manager for End of the Road Festival.
£5,000 to Dr Corri Waitt for The Wisdom of Chickens, an exploration of food resources, eco-ethics and animal behaviour, (to be published by Quercus in March 2015). Damian Barr predicts that ‘this book will do for our most familiar feathered friend what Desmond Morris did for apes. Wide-ranging, scientifically rigorous and heartfelt’. Dr Corri Waitt has researched and lectured at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford since 2006.
The three winning authors were presented with their awards on Tuesday 10 December 2013 at an event held at The 20th Century Theatre, Westbourne Grove, London.
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