J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography
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The J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography is awarded annually by the English Centre for International PEN to an author resident in Britain who has written an outstanding autobiography in English. The winner receives £1,000 and a silver pen. The winner is announced on PEN Writers' Day in June. The award was established by English author and editor J. R. Ackerley, who willed his royalties to a fund to provide the award.
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Recent winners
- 2005: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Half an Arch
- 2004: Bryan Magee, Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood
- 2003: Jenny Diski, Stranger on a Train
- 2002: Michael Foss, Out of India: A Raj Childhood
- 2001: Lorna Sage, Bad Blood
- 2000: Mark Frankland, Child of My Time
- 1999: Margaret Forster, Precious Lives