TLS Ackerley Prize

Given by J. R. Ackerley Trust

Other Names: J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, PEN/Ackerley Prize, PEN/Ackerley Prize Nominee
62 Works / 64 Items 14,763 Books 552 Reviews ½ 3.9
Was previously called the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography
Stages:
All, Winner (43), Shortlist (21)
Years:
All, 2024 (4), 2023 (4), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (5), 2013 (4), 2012 (5), 2011 (4), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (2), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (2)
Announced:
August 16: Winner2024 Recent
June 27: Shortlist2024 Recent

Winner 43

WorkYear
The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor2024
Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another by Nancy Campbell2023
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders2022
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox2021
A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief, and Consolation by Alison Light2020
The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward2019
The Day That Went Missing: A Family's Story by Richard Beard2018
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot2017
Dead Babies and Seaside Towns by Alice Jolly2016
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh2015
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala2014
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway2013
How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits by Duncan Fallowell2012
My Father's Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn2011
Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story by Gabriel Weston2010
The Three of Us: A Family Story by Julia Blackburn2009
In My Father's House: Elegy for an Obsessive Love by Miranda Seymour2008
Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood by Brian Thompson2007
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett2006
Half an Arch: A Memoir. by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy2005
Clouds of Glory by Bryan Magee2004
Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions by Jenny Diski2003
Out of India: A Raj Childhood by Michael Foss2002
Bad Blood: A Memoir by Lorna Sage2001
Child Of My Time by Mark Frankland2000
Precious Lives by Margaret Forster1999
True to Both My Selves by Katrin Fitzherbert1998
The Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott1997
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax1996
Something In Linoleum. A Thirties Education by Paul Vaughan1995
And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison1994
More Please: An Autobiography by Barry Humphries1993
Almost a Gentleman: An Autobiography : 1955-1966 by John Osborne1992
St. Martin's Ride by Paul Binding1991
Daddy, We Hardly Knew You by Germaine Greer1990
The Grass Arena by John Healy1989
Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess1988
After a Funeral by Diana Athill1987
Time and time again : autobiographies by Dan Jacobson1986
Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood by Angelica Garnett1985
Still Life: Sketches From A Tunbridge Wells Childhood by Richard Cobb1984
Her People: Memories of an Edwardian Childhood by Kathleen Dayus1983
The High Path by Ted Walker1983

Shortlist 21

WorkYear
Mother Country: A Story of Love and Lies by Monique Charlesworth2024
Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain by Jeremy Seabrook2024
The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor2024
Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another by Nancy Campbell2023
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm2023
Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi2023
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes2014
Stage Blood: Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore2014
Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet by Harry Eyres2014
Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir by Penelope Lively2014
The Wolf Pit by Will Cohu2013
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk2013
Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant2013
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign by Sherard Cowper-Coles2012
The Horseman's Word by Roger Garfitt2012
The Rain Tree by Mirabel Osler2012
Outsider always almost, never quite: an autobiography by Brian Sewell2012
Waking Up in Toytown by John Burnside2011
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal2011
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay2011
Swimming with my father by Tim Jeal2004

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