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PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize

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The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize is awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content covering a period up to and including World War II, and published in the year of the award.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

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Winners and shortlist

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A blue ribbon (Blue ribbon) denotes the winner.

2000s

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

  • 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
  • Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
  • Frederick Spotts, The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
  • Blue ribbon Clair Wills, That Neutral Island: A cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War

2009

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

2010s

2010

2011

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

2012

2013

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

2014

2015

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

2018

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

2019

The winner was announced 4 December 2019.[10]

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

2020s

2020

The shortlist was announced on 29 October 2020.[11] The winner was announced on 1 December 2020.[12]

2021

The shortlist was announced on 14 October 2021 and the winner on 7 December.[13][14]

2022

The shortlist was announced on 7 October 2022.[15]

2023

The shortlist was announced on Thursday, November 2nd, 2023.[18]

  • Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean, Abolition Revolution (Pluto Press)
  • Calum Jacobs, A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game (Merky Books)
  • Philippe Sands,The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
  • Julieann Campbell,On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and Its Aftermath by Those Who Were There (Monoray)
  • Blue ribbon Kojo Koram, Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray Press)[19]

2024

The shortlist was announced on 14 November 2024.[20]

  • Caroline Dodds Pennock, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (W&N)
  • Robert Gildea, Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85 (Yale University Press) 
  • Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949–1990 (Allen Lane) 
  • Ian Rutledge, Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War (Saqi Books) 
  • Blue ribbon Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (Oneworld) [21]
  • Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (Virago) 
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