• The TLS Ackerley Prize is awarded annually to a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during...
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  • runs three annual awards – the PEN Pinter Prize, the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, and the PEN/Ackerley Prize. Funded by and in honour of former PEN members...
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    British journalist and author. She won the 2016 Wainwright Prize and the 2017 PEN/Ackerley Prize for her memoir The Outrun. Amy Liptrot grew up on a farm...
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  • writing with self-reflection. It won her the 2016 Wainwright Prize and the 2017 PEN/Ackerley Prize. Critics in the United Kingdom and the United States have...
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    memoir, The Terrible, was published in 2018, and in 2019 it won the PEN/Ackerley Prize. She co-wrote Black Is King, Beyoncé's musical film and visual album...
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  • owned by Barry Ackerley J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, a British prize awarded by PEN, established by sister of J. R. Ackerley This page lists...
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  • National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography) and won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2013. This book is currently used as a prose passage in the education...
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  • Joe Randolph Ackerley (4 November 1896 – 4 June 1967) was a British writer and editor. Starting with the BBC the year after its founding in 1927, he was...
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    And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the murder of James...
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    of recordings. His first autobiography, More Please, won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 1993. Bizarre. Compilation. London: Elek Books...
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  • 2001. ISBN 978-1862074545 1986: After a Funeral – winner of the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-1847086334 1993:...
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  • Society of Literature’s V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for short stories (2014) and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography (2016). Her novel Mary Ann Sate...
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    non-fiction books and short literature. He is the winner of the 2018 Ackerley Prize for his memoir The Day That Went Missing. Beard was born in Swindon...
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    Release: The History Boys - nominated 1989 Hawthornden Prize: Talking Heads 2006 J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography: Untold Stories - won 1987 Critics'...
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    MEMOIR PRIZE PEN/Ackerley Prize shortlist announced" (PDF). Englishpen.org. Retrieved 9 January 2019. "The Man Booker Prize 2004 | the Man Booker Prizes"....
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    Maggie O'Farrell (category Women's Prize for Fiction)
    The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2022. "Richard Beard awarded PEN Ackerley Prize 2018 for 'The Day That Went Missing'". English Pen. Retrieved 6 February...
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    Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, 2009 Shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2009. Winner, Mind Book of the Year, 2009. Honorary Doctor of Letters...
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  • fashion curation at the London College of Fashion. She won the 2021 PEN/Ackerley Prize for Patch Work. Radical Fashion (2001) Vivienne Westwood (2004) The...
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  • the Japanese military. The book won the NCR Book Award and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography. Growing up before World War II, Lomax is fascinated...
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    continuation of it, and almost engulfed me." The memoir was awarded the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 1985. Garnett was the author of a second memoir...
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  • the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize for evoking the spirit of place and the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has edited and introduced...
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  • that, like this book, will haunt you." Saunders was awarded the PEN Ackerley Prize for outstanding memoir and autobiography for The Suitcase: Six Attempts...
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  • Jenny Diski (section Prizes)
    with inoperable lung cancer. She died on 28 April 2016. 2003 J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around...
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    or Autobiography – United States Whitbread Prize for Best Biography – United Kingdom J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography – United Kingdom Prix Goncourt...
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    George Szirtes (category T. S. Eliot Prize winners)
    Poetry and People Prize (China) 2020 – Shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for The Photographer at Sixteen Winner James Tait Black Prize for Biography...
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  • the freedom. His memoir, Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood, won The Ackerley Prize in 2004. Magee died on 26 July 2019, at the age of 89, at St Luke's...
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  • and after World War II, which won the 1996 NCR Book Award and the PEN/Ackerley Prize. Lomax was born in Edinburgh on 30 May 1919. He left the Royal High...
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  • books to date. In 2020 A Radical Romance, was awarded the Pen Ackerley prize, the only prize for memoir in the UK. Common People: The History of an English...
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  • Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize[citation needed] 2015 Finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize Financial Times...
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  • "Hessell-Tiltman Prize". English PEN. Archived from the original on February 13, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2012. "PEN/Ackerley Prize". English PEN. Archived...
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