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