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Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2018

The Biographers’ Club is now accepting submissions for The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2018. The prize of £2,500 will be awarded to the best book by a first-time biographer at a party in London.

Edmund Gordon shortlisted for Locus Award

We are delighted to hear that Edmund Gordon, winner of the 2017 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for The Invention of Angela Carter has been shortlisted for the non-fiction category in this year’s Locus Awards.

‘This was an exceptional shortlist . . .’

Sam Leith, The Spectator

‘I had the privilege – alongside the wise and learned Caroline Moorehead and Ian Kelly – of helping judge this year’s Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, which was last night awarded to Edmund Gordon for his superb The Invention of Angela Carter . . . This was an exceptional shortlist, in which every book showed not only thorough knowledge of its subject but deep and sympathetic understanding. And from the Tudor court, to the battlefields of the first world war, from a busy obs/gynae ward on the NHS to the august halls of the National Gallery, from a book-lined study to a Japanese love-hotel, we were thoroughly immersed in the worlds these books inhabit.’

12 Mar 2018

Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017: The Winner

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017 is Edmund Gordon for The Invention of Angela Carter.

The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Shortlist 2017

The shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017 has been announced. The Prize of £2,500 will be awarded on 6 March with a drinks reception at The Library Club, St Martin’s Lane.

Hisham Matar wins The Geschwister-Scholl-Preis

Hisham Matar, winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2016, has won another international literary prize. The Geschwister-Scholl-Preis was initiated in 1980 by the State Association of Bavaria in the Stock Market Society of the German Book Trade and the city of Munich . . .

19 Oct 2017

Hisham Matar has won the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017

We’re thrilled to see so much recognition for The Return, which has also won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at the PEN America Literary Awards.

30 May 2017

Hisham Matar wins 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

There has been more fantastic news for Hisham Matar, winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2016, as he has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

11 Apr 2017

Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017

The Biographers’ Club is now accepting submissions for The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017. The Prize of £2,500 will be awarded to the best book by a first-time biographer . . .

Hisham Matar wins PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

Hisham Matar, winner of The Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2016, has won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for his memoir The Return at the PEN America Literary Awards.

30 Mar 2017

Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2016: The Winner

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2016 is Hisham Matar for The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between.

Hisham Matar longlisted for Orwell Prize for Books

We are delighted to hear that Hisham Matar, winner of the 2016 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for The Return has been longlisted for this year’s Orwell Prize for Books. ‘The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political…

20 Mar 2017

Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2015

2015 was the second year of Slightly Foxed’s support for the Biographers’ Club Best First Biography Prize, with a winner’s award of £3,500. The prize is given to the best book by a published first-time biographer.

The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize – Shortlist Party 2015

This was the second year that we have sponsored the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, which showcases new talent in the field of biography writing.

Alan Cumming wins the 2015 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize

The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2015 (£3,500) has gone to Alan Cumming for his memoir Not My Father’s Son (Published by Canongate).

Claudia Renton wins 2014 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2014 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. The Prize dinner was held in the splendour of the National Liberal Club on Friday night, and we can now reveal the very worthy winner is Claudia Renton for Those Wild Wyndhams (WilliamCollins).

Slightly Foxed Biography Prize Shortlist 2014

The shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014 has been announced . . .

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