Dolman Best Travel Book Award
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The Dolman Best Travel Book Award is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers. The other award is that made each year by the British Guild of Travel Writers
, but that is limited to authors who are members of the Guild.
The first Dolman award was given in 2006, just two years after the only other travel book award - the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
which ran for 25 years - was abandoned by its sponsor. The £1,000 to £2,500 prize, organized by the Authors' Club
, is sponsored by and named after club member William Dolman
.
= winner
2011
2010
2009 Alice Albinia
, Empires of the Indus
2008
2007
2006 Nicholas Jubber, The Prester Quest
British Guild of Travel Writers
The British Guild of Travel Writers was formed in 1960. It is a membership organisation that admits authors whose work focuses on travel. It also includes among its membership many other professionals who generate travel-related content for print, broadcast and online media...
, but that is limited to authors who are members of the Guild.
The first Dolman award was given in 2006, just two years after the only other travel book award - the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award originated as an initiative of Thomas Cook AG in 1980, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing. The awards stopped in 2005...
which ran for 25 years - was abandoned by its sponsor. The £1,000 to £2,500 prize, organized by the Authors' Club
Authors' Club
The Authors' Club is a British membership organization established as a place where writers could meet and talk. It was founded by the novelist and critic Walter Besant in 1891....
, is sponsored by and named after club member William Dolman
William Dolman
William "Bill" Dolman was H.M.Coroner for the Northern District of London from 1993 to 2007. During his career he held over 8000 inquests, including a "suicide by cop", the first such case in English legal history...
.
Awards
Each year a small number of works are shortlisted and a winner is announced in early July at a dinner gala with the authors and publishers in attendance.= winner
2011
- Nicolas Jubber, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan Rachel Polonsky, Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History
- Katherine Russell RichKatherine Russell RichKatherine Russell Rich is an American autobiographical writer from New York City. Her first book, The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer, and Back, told of a clash of cultures occurring when the author's breast cancer treatment caused her to lose her hair just when both romantic and professional...
, Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language - Graham RobbGraham RobbGraham Macdonald Robb FRSL is a British author.Robb was born in Manchester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages...
, Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris - Douglas RogersDouglas Rogers (writer)Douglas Rogers is a Zimbabwean journalist, travel writer and memoirist.-Background:He was born and raised in Umtali, Rhodesia to Lyn, a lawyer and Rosalind, a drama teacher. He grew up on heavily fortified chicken and grape farms during the Rhodesian Bush War with his three sisters...
, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe - Simon Winder, Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
2010
- William Blacker, Along the Enchanted Way
- Horatio ClareHoratio ClareHoratio Clare is an author and journalist. He worked at the BBC as a producer on Front Row , Night Waves and The Verb . He has written two memoirs, 'Running for the Hills' and 'Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope' and a travel book, 'A Single Swallow'...
, A Single Swallow - Matthew EngelMatthew EngelMatthew Lewis Engel is a British writer and editor who began his career in 1972. He worked on The Guardian newspaper for nearly 25 years, reporting on a wide range of political and sporting events including a stint as Washington correspondent beginning on 9/11. He now writes a column in the...
, Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain - Daniel Metcalfe, Out of Steppe
- Susan Richards, Lost and Found in Russia
- Hugh Thomson, Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico Ian Thomson, The Dead Yard
2009 Alice Albinia
Alice Albinia
Alice Albinia is a journalist and author whose first book, Empires of the Indus, won several awards.Alice read English Literature at Cambridge and South Asian History at SOAS...
, Empires of the Indus
- Andrew Brown, Fishing in Utopia
- Richard GrantRichard Grant (writer)Richard Grant is a freelance British travel writer based in Arizona. He was born in Malaysia, lived in Kuwait as a boy and then moved to London. He went to school in Hammersmith and received a history degree from University College, London...
, Bandit Roads - Kapka KassabovaKapka KassabovaKapka Kassabova is a poet, essayist and travel writer who was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1973. After leaving Bulgaria as a teenager and living in England and New Zealand, she now resides in Edinburgh, Scotland....
, Street Without a Name - Grevel LindopGrevel LindopGrevel Lindop is an English poet, academic and literary critic.-Life:Lindop was born in Liverpool and studied at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English. After two years of postgraduate research at Wadham and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford, he moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, where he...
, Travels on the Dance Floor - Dervla MurphyDervla MurphyDervla Murphy is an Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books for over 40 years.Murphy is best known for her 1965 book Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle, about an overland cycling trip through Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India...
, The Island that Dared
2008
- Tim ButcherTim ButcherTim Butcher is an English journalist, broadcaster and best-selling author.Born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, he was educated at Rugby School, and Magdalen College, Oxford University....
, Blood River - Henry Hemming, Misadventure in the Middle East John LucasJohn LucasJohn Lucas is the name of:*John Lucas , philosopher*John Lucas II , retired American professional basketball player*John Lucas III , his son, current professional basketball player...
, 92 Acharnon Street - Robert MacfarlaneRobert MacfarlaneRobert Macfarlane, , is a British travel writer and literary critic. Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.-Books:Macfarlane's first...
, The Wild Places - Christopher Robbins, In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
2007
- Rory McCarthyRory McCarthyRory McCarthy is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club St. Martin's and with the Wexford senior inter-county team. He played in the half-back line.-Early life:...
, Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated - David McKieDavid McKieDavid McKie is a British journalist and historian. He was deputy editor of The Guardian and continued to write a weekly column for that paper until 4 October 2007, with the byline "Elsewhere". Until 10 September 2005, he also wrote a second weekly column, under the pseudonym "Smallweed"...
, Great British Bus Journeys - Tom Parry, Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback Claire Scobie, Last Seen in Lhasa
2006 Nicholas Jubber, The Prester Quest
- Joanna KavennaJoanna Kavenna-Biography:Kavenna spent her childhood in Suffolk and the Midlands as well as various other parts of Britain. She has also lived in the United States, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. These travels led to her first book, The Ice Museum, which was published in 2005...
, The Ice Museum - Ruth PadelRuth PadelRuth Sophia Padel is a British poet, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London. She also writes non-fiction and more recently fiction, broadcasts on wildlife, poetry and literature for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and is Writer in Residence at The Environment Institute,...
, Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers - Richard Lloyd ParryRichard Lloyd ParryRichard Lloyd Parry is an award-winning British foreign correspondent. He is the Asia Editor of The Times , based in Tokyo, and is the author of the non-fiction books In the Time of Madness and People Who Eat Darkness The Fate of Lucie Blackman.-Early life:He was born in Southport, Merseyside in...
, In the Time of Madness - Stevie SmithStevie SmithFlorence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist.-Life:Stevie Smith, born Florence Margaret Smith in Kingston upon Hull, was the second daughter of Ethel and Charles Smith. Contemporary Women Poets...
, Pedalling to Hawaii
External links
- Dolman Best Travel Book Award at The Authors' Club, official website.
- Dolman Best Travel Book Award and Shortlist at LibraryThingLibraryThingLibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by individuals, authors, libraries and publishers....