Hessell-Tiltman Prize

The Hessell-Tiltman History Prize is awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content covering a period up to and including World War II, and published in the year of the award.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 () denotes the winner.

2000s

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008
  • Clair Wills, That Neutral Island
  • 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

2009
  • Mark Thompson, The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919

2010s

2010

2011
  • Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra[2]
  • 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

2012

2013
  • Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II[3]
  • 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
  • Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea

2014

2015
  • Jessie Childs, God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
  • Mark Bostridge, The Fateful Year: England 1914
  • 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]

  • David Olusoga, Black and British: a Forgotten History
  • Sarah Bakewell, At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
  • Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
  • Susan L. Carruthers, The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace
  • Dan Cruickshank, Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
  • Frank Dikötter, The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976
  • Tim Whitmarsh, Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

2018

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

  • S. A. Smith, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890-1928
  • Stephen Alford, London's Triumph: Merchant Adventure and the Tudor City
  • Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
  • Masha Gessen, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  • Christopher J. Lebron, The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
  • Lynda Nead, The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain

2019

The winner was announced 4 December 2019.[10]

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

See also

References
  1. "PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize - English PEN". English PEN. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
  2. Brenda Maddox (8 April 2011). "What Fuels Our Appetite for War?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  3. Felicity Capon (8 April 2013). "Keith Lowe awarded the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  4. Timothy R. Smith (April 9, 2014). "David Reynolds wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize". Washington Post. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  5. Natasha Onwuemezi (April 1, 2016). "Stargardt wins the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize 2016". The Bookseller. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  6. Katherine Cowdrey (7 June 2017). "'Satisfying' PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize shortlist revealed". The Bookseller. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  7. Robert Sharp (10 July 2017). "David Olusoga wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017 for Black and British". English PEN. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  8. "PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2018 shortlist announced". English PEN. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  9. "S.A. Smith wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2018". English PEN. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  10. "Edward Wilson-Lee wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2019". English PEN. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
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