Launch of the Anglo Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024

A press notice was issued announcing a call to publishers for nominations for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024. Nominations are open until 15 December 2023. Prof. Judith Mossman is the new chair of the judging panel with Prof. Ingela Nilsson joining the panel for the first time. The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award is sponsored by the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and the A. G. Leventis Foundation.

Press Notice:
We are pleased to announce the call to publishers for nominations for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024. Publishers are invited to make up to seven nominations each for books that fall within the specifications and criteria of the award. The detailed rules for publishers and nomination forms are being released in parallel with this press notice.

For the competition in 2024, Prof. Judith Mossman (Coventry) will take over as chair of the panel of judges. Dr Sofka Zinovieff, Dr Vassiliki Kolocotroni (Glasgow) and Prof. Oliver Thomas (Nottingham) will re-join the panel. Prof. Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala) joins the panel for the first time.

Nominations are open until 15 December 2023. The judges expect to draw up and publish their long list in January 2024. A short list will be announced in April. The winner will be revealed at an Award Ceremony in London on 17 June 2024. 

Notes to editors:
1. The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award was conceived in 1983, as an initiative of Earl Jellicoe, the then chairman of the League, in honour of Sir Steven Runciman, the distinguished historian of Byzantium and longest-serving chairman of the League (1951-1967). It was first awarded in 1986 and has been awarded most years since then.

2. The award is given to the best book (or books) published in English in the previous year on a Greek subject. It aims to stimulate interest in Greek history and culture from earliest times to the present; to reward and encourage good and accessible writing, of which Runciman’s works are an example; and to promote a wider knowledge and understanding of Greece’s contribution to civilisation and values. The prize may be awarded for a work in the field of history, literary studies, biography, travel and topography, the arts, architecture, archaeology, the environment, social and political sciences or current affairs; or for a work of fiction, poetry or drama. Translations from Greek literature into English are also eligible. Books published in 2023 are eligible for the award in 2024.

3. The winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023 was A.E. Stallings for This Afterlife: Selected Poems (Carcanet 2022).

4. Enquiries about the Award can be made to the administrator (Dr John Kittmer) at runciman@anglohellenicleague.org. Notices will be posted to the League’s website: www.anglohellenicleague.org. Information about the two sponsoring foundations can be found at: https://www.aclcf.org/about-en/the-foundation/ and http://www.leventisfoundation.org/en/.