Jerwood Award The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction were financial awards made to assist new writers of non-fiction to carry out new research, and/or to devote more time to writing. The awards were administrated by the Royal Society of Literature on behalf of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation . Recipients must have a publishing contract and be citizens of either the UK or Ireland, or have been residents in one of these for at least the last three years. In 2017 the awards were replaced by the Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction .Recipients 2016 Violet Moller for The Geography of Knowledge , Pan Macmillan Afua Hirsch for Brit: Getting Under the Skin of Britain's Race Problem , Cape Damian Le Bas for Stopping Places , Chatto2015 Thomas Morris for The Matter of the Heart , Bodley Head Catherine Nixey for , MacMillan Duncan White for Cold Warriors: Waging Literary War Across the Iron Curtain , Little, Brown2014 Laurence Scott for The Four-Dimensional Human , Heinemann Minoo Dinshaw for A Life of Sir Steven Runciman , Penguin Aida Edemariam for The Wife's Tale , 4th Estate 2013 Tom Burgis for The Looting Machine , William Collins Julian Mash for Portobello Road: Dispatches from the Street , Frances Lincoln Corri Waitt for The Wisdom of Chickens , Quercus2012 Ramita Navai for City of Lies: The Undercover Truth About Tehran , Weidenfeld & Nicolson Edmund Gordon for Angela Carter: The Biography , Chatto Gwen Adshead for A Short Book About Evil , Jessica Kingsley2011 James Macdonald Lockhart for Raptor: A Journey Through Britain's Birds of Prey , Fourth Estate Gerard Russell for Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms , Simon & Schuster Helen Smith for Edward Garnett: The Uncommon Reader , Jonathan Cape Polly Morland for The Society of Timid Souls, or How to Be Brave , Profile2010 Alexander Monro for The Paper Trail , Penguin Roger Beam for Englandspiel , Haynes Jonathan Beckman for Cardinal Sins: Marie Antoinette and the Affair of the Necklace , Fourth Estate2009 Caspar Henderson for The Book of Barely Imagined Beings , Granta Miles Hollingworth for St Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography , Continuum Selina Mills for Life Unseen: The Story of Blindness , IB Tauris2008 Rachel Hewitt for Map of a Nation , Granta Matthew Hollis for Edward Thomas:The Final Years , Faber Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts for Edgelands – Journeys into England’s Last Wilderness , Cape2007 Andrew Stott for The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi , Canongate Rachel Campbell-Johnston for Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer , Bloomsbury Daniel Swift for A Terrible Fury , Hamish Hamilton2006 Carolyn Steel for Hungry City , Chatto Sarah Irving for Natural Science and the Origins of British Empire , Pickering & Chatto Thomas Wright for Oscar’s Books , Chatto2005 Alice Albinia for Empires of the Indus , John Murray Christopher Turner for Adventures in the Orgasmatron , Fourth Estate Druin Burch for Digging Up the Dead , Chatto Matthew Green for The Wizard of the Nile , Portobello2004 Jim Endersby for A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology , Heinemann Roland Chambers for The Last Englishman – The Double Life of Arthur Ransome , Faber John Stubbs for John Donne: The Reformed Soul , Viking
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