Judges announce the long list for the Anglo-hellenic league Runciman Award 2025
The judging panel for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, given annually for a book about Greece, has agreed a long list of 20 books for the competition in 2025.
Out of 56 nominations submitted for the Award, the judges selected 20 to form their long list. The list, which covers books published globally in English in 2024, includes books on history, archaeology, and the history of scholarship, plus memoirs, travel writing, novels, poetry and literary translation. The books selected span Hellenic experience from antiquity until today.
The full long list of 20 titles is below.
The Award Ceremony for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 is scheduled to be held in the Great Hall of King’s College London on Friday 13 June 2025, at 7pm. Details of the award ceremony and of the short list will be announced in due course.
The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award is sponsored by the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. The value of the prize to the winner is £10,000.
Council of the League
13 January 2025
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
Since 1986, the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award has rewarded annually the best book published in the previous year in English about Greece or on a Greek subject. The Award is open to scholarly and creative books and to translations into English of Greek literary works.
The judges for the Award in 2025 are: Dr Sokfa Zinovieff (chair), Prof. Esther Eidinow, Prof. Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Prof. Ingela Nilsson, and Dr Oliver Thomas.
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Enquiries to: Dr Jonathan Williams (Award Administrator) runciman@anglohellenicleague.org
LONG LIST
Scholarly Writing
Alex Christofi Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean (Bloomsbury)
Daisy Dunn The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It (W&N/Orion)
Edith Hall Facing Down the Furies. Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me (Yale UP)
Bettany Hughes The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (W&N/Orion)
Anthony Kaldellis The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Oxford UP)
Julia Kindt The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human (Cambridge UP)
Paul J. Kosmin The Ancient Shore (Belknap, Harvard UP)
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt (Wildfire)
John Ma Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity (Princeton UP)
Oswyn Murray The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present (Belknap, Harvard UP/Penguin Allen Lane)
Glenn Peers Byzantine Media Subjects (Cornell UP)
Toby Wilkinson The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra (Bloomsbury)
Creative Writing
Pat Barker The Voyage Home (Penguin Hamish Hamilton)
Christopher Childers (translator) The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse (Penguin Allen Lane)
Laura Coffey Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey (Summersdale)
David Constantine (translator) A Bird Called Elaeus: Poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology (Bloodaxe)
Sasha Dugdale The Strongbox (Carcanet)
Stephen Fry Odyssey (Penguin Michael Joseph)
Jennifer Kellogg (translator) Book of Exercises II (by George Seferis) (World Poetry Books)
Ferdia Lennon Glorious Exploits (Penguin Fig Tree)