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Ariane Bankes at Daunt, Marylebone
There was quite a crush at Daunt Books as many friends celebrated with Ariane Bankes (left, with Clare Bullock of Duckwoth) , the Biographers’ Club prizes administrator, publication of her new book The Quality of Love. You can read more about the party here. Ariane is discussing her book with Cressida Connolly at Hatchards on…
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Hatchards and the Biographers’ Club are delighted to announce the launch of the Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize, the first year of Hatchards’ sponsorship, following our highly successful partnership with Slightly Foxed.
The prize awards £2,500 to the best biography or memoir published that year, and has been won in recent years by Daniel Finkelstein, Katherine Rundell and Osman Yousefzada, Lea Ypi, Heather Clark, Jonathan Phillips, Bart van Es, Edmund Gordon and Hisham Matar. The judges for 2024 will be: Tom Baily has worked at Hatchards bookshop…
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The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023 winner is Daniel Finkelstein for Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad
Slightly Foxed and The Biographers’ Club are delighted to announce that the winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023 is Daniel Finkelstein for Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad. From left to right: Sue Gaisford (judge), Arabella Pike (Daniel Finkelstein’s publisher at William Collins), Gail Pirkis (Slightly Foxed), Clare Mulley (judge) THE PRIZE 2023 SHORTLIST…
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TLP is now the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize
The Tony Lothian Prize, for the best proposal by a first time biographer, has been renamed the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize. The change follows the death last year of the Duchess of Buccleuch, who founded the prize in memory of her mother, Antonella (“Tony”) Lothian. The Duke of Buccleuch is continuing to support the £2,000 prize…
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Slightly Foxed and The Biographers’ Club are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023
This is the 10th year that Slightly Foxed – publishers of the literary journal Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly and an acclaimed list of limited-edition cloth-bound memoirs, and producers of the well-loved literary podcast – has sponsored the Prize. The Prize awards £2,500 to the judges’ choice of the best first biography published each…
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Anne de Courcy wins Exceptional Contribution to Biography Award
The Biographers’ Club has given its Exceptional Contribution to Biography award to Anne de Courcy. She received the award at the Biographers’ Club Christmas Party at Albany. Jane Ridley, chair of the club, marvelled that de Courcy, who had led a busy life as a journalist, could also have produced 11 biographies. She cited in…
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Tony Lothian Prize: The shortlist!
The judges have shortlisted six titles for the Tony Lothian Prize, given for a proposal by a first-time biographer. The £2,000 prize will be presented at our Christmas party (see above). Victoria Baena: A Sentimental Education – Amélie Bosquet, Gustave Flaubert, and the Writer’s Vocation in Nineteenth-Century France A Sentimental Education draws on original archival…
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TLP-shortlisted biography by Sharon Mather published in October
Sharon Mather – Edward Marsh: A Life of Poets, Painters and Players Unicorn publishes in October Edward Marsh: A Life of Poets, Painters and Players, a contender for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2021. The blurb: “Sir Edward ‘Eddie’ Marsh was an ornament of early twentieth-century society; a respected civil servant, polymath and scholar who…
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Philip Ward – Encounters with Michael Arlen
Philip Ward, who was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2017, has published Encounters with Michael Arlen. Michael Arlen (1895-1956) was a literary shooting star among the smart set of the 1920s. The self-styled chronicler of Mayfair society, he became an international celebrity after the publication of his scandalous novel The Green Hat in…
