The Runciman Award is an annual
literary award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Ma ...
offered by the
Anglo-Hellenic League for a work published in English dealing wholly or in part with
Greece or
Hellenism. The award is named in honour of the late Sir
Steven Runciman
Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman ( – ), known as Steven Runciman, was an English historian best known for his three-volume ''A History of the Crusades'' (1951–54).
He was a strong admirer of the Byzantine Empire. His history's negative ...
and is currently sponsored (since 2021) by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation.
Two New Sponsors
/ref> The value of the prize is £10,000.
Previous winners have included Mark Mazower
Mark Mazower (; born 20 February 1958) is a British historian. His expertise are Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th-century Europe. He is Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University in New York City
Early life
Mazowe ...
, Antony Beevor, Richard Clogg, K.E. Fleming
Katherine Elizabeth Fleming is President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization in the Department of History at New York University (NYU) as well as Provost Emerita of the ...
, Emily Greenwood, Juliet du Boulay
Juliet Capulet () is the female protagonist in William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy ''Romeo and Juliet''. A 13-year-old girl, Juliet is the only daughter of the patriarch of the House of Capulet. She falls in love with the male protagonist ...
and Bruce Clark. The only person to have won it four times is Roderick Beaton.
Recipients
UK prizes
Prizes awarded for books published in the United Kingdom in the previous year:
UK and Worldwide Prizes
From 2004, prizes have been awarded for books published in English anywhere in the world in the previous year:
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://runcimanaward.org/
1986 establishments in the United Kingdom
Awards established in 1986
2004 establishments in Greece
Awards established in 2004
Greek literary awards
British non-fiction literary awards