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Ondaatje Prize

Literary award

Summary

Literary award

FieldValue
nameOndaatje Prize
subheaderRoyal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize
awarded_forwork of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, "evoking the spirit of a place"
presenterRoyal Society of Literature
sponsorSir Christopher Ondaatje
countryUnited Kingdom
year
website

The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature. The £10,000 award is for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that evokes the "spirit of a place", and is written by someone who is a citizen of or who has been resident in the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.

The prize bears the name of its benefactor Sir Christopher Ondaatje. The prize incorporates the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, which was presented up to 2002 for regional fiction.

Winners

YearAuthorTitleRef.2004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Hearing Birds Fly
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In the Country of Men
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Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History
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Scenes from Early Life
This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
Golden Hill
Mama Amazonica
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* (also published as The Butchers' Blessing*)
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Anthony AnaxagorouHeritage Aesthetics
Ian PenmanFassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
Carys DaviesClear

References

References

  1. "RSL Ondaatje Prize". [[Royal Society of Literature]].
  2. "Christopher Ondaatje homepage".
  3. Jury, Louise. (6 April 2004). "Gulag book shortlisted for Ondaatje Prize". [[The Independent]].
  4. Pauli, Michelle. (23 May 2006). "Guardian writer wins Ondaatje prize for Russian civil war novel". The Guardian.
  5. Lea, Richard. (3 May 2007). "Matar's tale of latterday Libya takes Ondaatje prize". The Guardian.
  6. Dammann, Guy. (29 April 2008). "£10,000 reward for The Discovery of France". The Guardian.
  7. Flood, Alison. (19 May 2009). "'Powerfully evocative' family history wins Ondaatje prize". The Guardian.
  8. Flood, Alison. (25 May 2010). "Ian Thomson wins £10,000 Ondaatje prize". The Guardian.
  9. Flood, Allison. (24 May 2011). "Ondaatje prize goes to Edmund de Waal". The Guardian.
  10. Flood, Alison. (29 May 2012). "2012 Ondaatje prize 2012 goes to debut novel by Rahul Bhattacharya". The Guardian.
  11. Armitstead, Claire. (14 May 2013). "Philip Hensher wins Ondaatje prize with novel on husband's childhood". The Guardian.
  12. Flood, Alison. (20 May 2014). "Alan Johnson's memoir of London slum childhood wins £10,000 Ondaatje prize". The Guardian.
  13. Kerr, Michael. (19 May 2015). "Justin Marozzi wins £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize". [[The Daily Telegraph]].
  14. Cain, Sian. (23 May 2016). "'Anti-travelogue' on Putin's Russia wins £10,000 Ondaatje prize". The Guardian.
  15. Kean, Danuta. (8 May 2017). "Francis Spufford wins the Ondaatje prize with Golden Hill". [[The Guardian]].
  16. Flood, Alison. (2018-05-14). "Ondaatje prize goes to 'mythic' poems about a mother's mental illness".
  17. Flood, Alison. (2019-05-13). "Ondaatje prize: Aida Edemariam wins for vivid biography of her grandmother". The Guardian.
  18. Flood, Alison. (4 May 2020). "Roger Robinson's poems of Trinidad and London win Ondaatje prize".
  19. Flood, Alison. (11 May 2021). "The Butchers: novel set in Irish BSE crisis wins Ondaatje prize".
  20. (4 May 2022). "LEA YPI announced as winner of the 2022 RSL Ondaatje Prize for "Free"".
  21. Creamer, Ella. (2023-05-10). "Anthony Anaxagorou wins Ondaatje prize for collection of postcolonial poetry". The Guardian.
  22. (14 May 2024). "Ian Penman’s ‘glittering’ book about Fassbinder wins Ondaatje prize".
  23. (16 May 2025). "Carys Davies wins the Ondaatje prize for Clear, a ‘masterpiece of exquisite, craggy detail’".
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