Sir Israel Gollancz Prize is awarded biannually by the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

in honour of

Israel Gollancz Sir Israel Gollancz, FBA (13 July 1863 – 23 June 1930) was a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare. He was Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, London, from 1903 to 1930. Life and career Gollancz wa ...

, a founder member and its first secretary, since 1924. Originally named "Biennial Prize for English Literature" and renamed after Gollancz's death in 1930, the award was established on the initiative of Frida Mond. It is awarded to scholars of Old and Early English language and literature and history of the English language.

Winners

The following have received the prize: * 1925: Joseph Wright * 1927: R. W. Chambers * 1929: Professor

Allen Mawer Sir Allen Mawer, (8 May 1879 − 22 July 1942) was an English philologist. A notable researcher of Viking activity in the British Isles, Mawer is best known as the founder of the English Place-Name Society, and as Provost of University Col ...

* 1931: H. C. K. Wyld * 1933: C. T. Onions * 1935: Sir W. A. Craigie * 1937:

C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalen ...

* 1939: J. M. Manly * 1941: Karl Young * ''1943–1950: No award'' * 1951: Dorothy Whitelock * 1953: Kenneth Sisam * 1955:

Bruce Dickins Bruce Dickins, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (26 October 1889 – 4 January 1978), a graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, was Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds from 1931 to 1946 (where he succeeded E. V. Gordon), te ...

* 1957: Florence Harmer * 1959: Neil Ker * 1963: George Kane * 1965: Albert Hugh Smith * 1969: Kenneth Cameron * 1971: Phyllis Hodgson * 1973: Norman Davis * 1975: Rosemary Woolf * 1977: E. J. Dobson * 1979: J. A. W. Bennett * 1981: A. J. Aitken * 1983: Ian Doyle * 1985: Anne Hudson * 1987: Bruce Mitchell * 1989: Angus McIntosh * 1991: Anne Hudson * 1993:

Patrick Sims-Williams Patrick Sims-Williams is Emeritus Professor of Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University and founding editor of the journal '' Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies''. Education Sims-Williams was educated at Borden Grammar School in Sittingbourne, K ...

* 1995: H. Leith Spencer * 1997: Fred Robinson * 1999: George Kane (2nd award) * 2001: Malcolm Godden and

Peter Clemoes Peter Alan Martin Clemoes (20 January 1920 – 16 March 1996) was a British historian. Biography Peter Clemoes was born in Southend-on-Sea and educated at Brentwood School. He originally wished to become an actor and won a scholarship to RADA ...

* 2003: Robert Lewis * 2005: Patrick P. O'Neill * 2007: William James Simpson * 2009:

Michael Lapidge Michael Lapidge, FBA (born 8 February 1942) is a scholar in the field of Medieval Latin literature, particularly that composed in Anglo-Saxon England during the period 600–1100 AD; he is an emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, a Fellow ...

* 2011: Jill Mann * 2013: Leslie Lockett * 2015: Ralph Hanna * 2017: Helmut Gneuss * 2019: David Wallace "for his lifetime contribution into the study of Chaucer and Medieval English literature" * 2021: Richard Dance, Sara Pons-Sanz, and Brittany Schorn (The Gersum Project), "for its innovative contribution to the study of the etymology of Middle English" * 2022: David Lawton * 2024: Aaron Kleist

References

{{reflist British literary awards British Academy Awards established in 1924 1924 establishments in the United Kingdom Biennial events Medieval studies

Winners

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