JUDGES ANNOUNCE THE LONG LIST FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2023

PRESS NOTICE

The judging panel for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, given annually for a book about Greece, has agreed a long list of 24 books for the competition in 2023. Out of 47 books submitted for the Award, the judges selected 24 to form their long list. The list, which coversbooks published globally in English in 2022, includes books on history, biography, literature and philosophy, plus novels, poetry and literary translation. The books selected span Hellenic experience from antiquity until today.


The full long list of 24 titles is attached.

The Award Ceremony for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023 is scheduled to be held in theGreat Hall of King’s College London on Monday 19 June 2023, at 7pm. Details of the award ceremony and ofthe short list will be announced in due course.


The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award is sponsored by the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation andthe A.G. Leventis Foundation. The value of the prize to the winner is £10,000.
Council of the League
10 January 2023

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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 2023 are:
Prof. Peter Frankopan (chair)
Dr Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Prof. Judith Mossman
Dr Oliver Thomas
Dr Sofka Zinovieff

Keep up with our news on: www.runcimanaward.org and www.anglohellenicleague.org.
Enquiries to: John Kittmer (Award Administrator) runciman@anglohellenicleague.org

TitleAuthorPressPeriodGenre
SCHOLARLY BOOKS
Nafplio: Biography of a Greek TownMatt StanleyAetos PressDiachronicHistory
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost PhilosopherLaura BeattyAtlantic BooksAntiquityHistory of Philosophy
The Greek Myths that Shape the Way We ThinkRichard BuxtonThames & HudsonAntiquityMythology / Literature
Untangling Blackness in Greek AntiquitySarah F. DerbewCUPAntiquityLiterature /Art History /Anthropology
Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Literature: Criticism, Imitation, ReceptionN. Bryant KirklandOUPAntiquityHistory
The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman CultureJason KönigPrinceton UPAntiquityCultural History
A New History of Greek MathematicsReviel NetzCUPAntiquityHistory of Ideas
The Classical Parthenon: Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient WorldWilliam St ClairOpen Book PublishersAntiquityHistory / Art
The Lives of Ancient Villages: Rural Society in Roman AnatoliaPeter ThonemannCUPAntiquityHistory /Ethnography
Exposed: The Greek and Roman BodyCaroline VoutProfileAntiquityArt History
The Christian Invention of Time:Temporality and the Literature of Late AntiquitySimon GoldhillCUPLate Antiquity /ByzantiumLiterature /History /Cutural Hisory/ Religion
Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to HistoryLucy ParkerOUPLate Antiquity /ByzantiumHistory / Religion
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 – 700Paul StephensonProfileLate Antiquity /ByzantiumHistory
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the WarsDaisy DunnW&NModernLiterature /Biography /History of Scholarship
The Improbable Heroine: Lela Karayanni and the British Secret Services in World War II GreeceStylianos PerrakisDe GruyterModernBiography
Who Saved the Parthenon? A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek RevolutionWilliam St ClairOpen Books PublishersModernHistory
CREATIVE BOOKS / TRANSLATIONS
Stone Blind: Medusa’’s StoryNatalie HaynesPan/ Macmillan /MantleAntiquityFiction
LionConn IgguldenPenguinAntiquityFiction
A Little Brown SeaCharles FosterFair AcreModernFiction
Fear of LightJulietta HarveyStarhavenModernFiction
This Afterlife: Selected PoemsA.E. StallingsCarcanetDiachronicPoetry
ImperiumJay GaoCarcanetAntiquityPoetry
Heritage AestheticsAnthony AnaxagorouGranta BooksModernPoetry
Greek Folk SongsTranslator: Joshua BarleyAiora PressDiachronicTranslation