Runciman Award

The Runciman Award is an annual literary award offered by the Anglo-Hellenic League for a work published in English dealing wholly or in part with Greece or Hellenism."Runciman Award goes to two winners", Kathimerini (edition in English), page 6, Life / Books section, Thursday, June 7, 2007 On some years the prize has been awarded jointly and shared between two or more authors. The award is named in honour of the late Sir Steven Runciman and is currently sponsored (since 2021) by the A. G. Leventis Foundation and the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation.Two New Sponsors The value of the prize is £10,000.

Recipients UK prizes Prizes awarded for books published in the United Kingdom in the previous year: Year Name Work Editor 1986 David Constantine Travellers in Greece Cambridge University Press 1987 No award - - 1988 John S. Koliopoulos Brigands with a Cause:Brigandage and Irredentism in Modern Greece, 1820-1921 Oxford University Press 1989 Rowland J. Mainstone Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church Thames and Hudson 1990 John Gould Herodotus Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1991 Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones The Academic Papers Oxford University Press 1992 Mark Mazower Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis Oxford University Press 1992 Antony Beevor Crete: the Battle and the Resistance John Murray 1993 Richard Clogg A Concise History of Greece Cambridge University Press 1994 Paul Magdalino The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 Cambridge University Press 1995 Roderick Beaton An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature Oxford University Press 1996 Sir John Boardman The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity Thames and Hudson 1996 Dr Rosemary Morris Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118 Cambridge University Press 1997 Andrew Dalby Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece Routledge 1997 Oliver Rackham & Jennifer Moody The Making of the Cretan Landscape Manchester University Press 1997 Gelina Harlaftis A History of Greek-owned Shipping: the Making of an International Tramp Fleet, 1830 to the present day Routledge 1997 Nigel Spivey Understanding Greek Sculpture:Ancient Meanings, Modern Readings Thames and Hudson 1998 George Cawkwell Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War Routledge 1998 Dr Martin West The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998 Prof. Robin Cormack Painting and the Soul: Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds Reaktion Books 1998 Patricia Storace Dinner with Persephone Granta Books 1999 Ian MacNiven Lawrence Durrell: a Biography Faber & Faber 1999 Christopher Stray Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 Clarendon Press, Oxford 1999 Dr Jenny March Dictionary of Classical Mythology Cassell 2000 Prof. J. V. Luce Celebrating Homer’s Landscapes Yale University Press 2000 Dr Reviel Netz The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History Cambridge University Press 2001 Dr Cyprian Broodbank An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades Cambridge University Press 2002 James Whitley The Archaeology of Ancient Greece Cambridge University Press 2003 Sir John Boardman The Archaeology of Nostalgia:How the Greeks re-created their Mythical Past Thames and Hudson

UK and Worldwide Prizes From 2004, prizes have been awarded for books published in English anywhere in the world in the previous year:

Year Name Work Editor2004 Roderick Beaton George Seferis – Waiting for the Angel – A Biography Yale University Press2005 Mark Mazower Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews Harper Collins 2006 Robin Lane Fox The Classical World Time Warner Book GroupTom Holland Persian Fire Allen Lane 2007 Bruce Clark Twice a Stranger Granta BooksRobert Holland & Diana Markides The British and the Hellenes Oxford University Press2008 Imogen Grundon The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury Libri Publications2009 K.E. Fleming Greece - A Jewish History Princeton University Press2010 Juliet du Boulay Cosmos, Life and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village Denise Harvey Publishers 2011 Molly Greene Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean Princeton University PressEmily Greenwood Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the 20th Century Oxford University Press2012 Peter Thonemann The Maeander Valley Cambridge University Press2013 Simon Goldhill Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy Oxford University Press2014 Roderick Beaton Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek RevolutionThe Runciman Award 2014 goes to Byron’s War Cambridge University Press2015 Armand M. Leroi The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science Bloomsbury Publishing2016 Sharon E. J. Gerstel Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium Cambridge University Press2017a (jointly) Ivan Drpić Epigram, Art and Devotion in Later Byzantium Cambridge University Press2017b (jointly) Marc Domingo Gygax Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City Cambridge University Press2018a (jointly) Matthew Simonton Classical Greek Oligarchy Princeton University Press2018b (jointly) Colm Tóibín House of Names Penguin/Viking2019a (jointly) Paul J. Kosmin Time and its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire Belknap Press of Harvard2019b (jointly) Robin Osborne The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece Princeton University Press2020/21 Roderick Beaton Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation Allen Lane 2022 Ian Collins John Craxton: A Life of Gifts Yale University Press2023 A. E. Stallings This Afterlife: Selected Poems Carcanet2024 Islam Issa Alexandria: The City that Changed the World Sceptre2025 Sasha Dugdale The Strongbox Sasha Dugdale wins 2025 Runciman Award Carcanet2026 Julian Hoffman Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece Julian Hoffman wins 2026 Runciman Award Elliott and Thompson

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