Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

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The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards celebrate the best travel writing and travel writers in the world. The awards include the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.

The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year was previously called Dolman Best Travel Book Award (2006-2014). The award is named after Edward Stanford and is sponsored by Stanfords, a travel books and map store established in London in 1853. The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers.[1] 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.[1] From its founding through 2014, the £1,000 to £2,500 prize was organized by the Authors' Club and was sponsored by and named after club member William Dolman.[1][2] Beginning in 2015, a new sponsor Stanfords, a travel book store, was established along with an increase to £5,000 for the winner.

List of awards[]

The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards consist of the following:

  • Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, in association with The Authors' Club
  • Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing
  • Fiction with a Sense of Place
  • Adventure Travel Book of the Year
  • Travel Memoir of the Year
  • Children's Travel Book of the Year
  • Travel Blog of the Year
  • Photography and Illustrated Travel Book of The Year
  • Food & Travel Book of the Year
  • Innovation in Travel Publishing
  • New Travel Writer of the Year

Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year[]

Blue ribbon = winner

Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

2020[3]

2019[4][5]

  • Blue ribbon , The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
  • , The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
  • Damian Le Bas, The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
  • , Map and Illustration by Jamie Whyte, Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire
  • Witold Szablowski, Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd Jones)
  • Daniel Trilling, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe

2018 [6][7]

  • , Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago
  • , The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border
  • Blue ribbon Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
  • , The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
  • Philip Hoare, Risingtidefallingstar
  • , Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence
  • , Photographs by , Travels in a Dervish Cloak

2017 no award[8]

2016[9][10]

  • , Station To Station: Searching for Stories On The Great Western Line
  • Geoff Dyer, White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
  • Elisabeth Luard, Squirrel Pie (and other stories): Adventures in Food Across the Globe
  • Jim Perrin, The Hills of Wales
  • Blue ribbon , Interstate: Hitchhiking Through the State of a Nation
  • Paul Theroux, Deep South

2015[11][12]

  • Philip Marsden, Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
  • , The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit
  • Blue ribbon Horatio Clare, Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men
  • , Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn
  • , A Journey into Russia
  • Elizabeth Pisani, Indonesia Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation

Dolman Best Travel Book Award

2014[13]

2013[14]

2012[citation needed]

2011[citation needed]

  • Nicolas Jubber, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan
  • Blue ribbon Rachel Polonsky, Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History
  • Katherine Russell Rich, Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
  • Graham Robb, Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
  • Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
  • Simon Winder, Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History

2010[16]

  • , Along the Enchanted Way
  • Horatio Clare, A Single Swallow
  • Matthew Engel, Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain
  • , Out of Steppe
  • , Lost and Found in Russia
  • , Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico
  • Blue ribbon Ian Thomson, The Dead Yard

2009[17]

2008[citation needed]

2007[citation needed]

  • Rory McCarthy, Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated
  • David McKie, Great British Bus Journeys
  • , Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback
  • Blue ribbon ,

2006[citation needed]

Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing award[]

A lifetime achievement award for travel writing.

Fiction with a Sense of Place[]

Adventure Travel Book of the Year[]

Travel Memoir of the Year[]

  • 2020 Pico Iyer, A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations[citation needed]
  • 2019 , The Crossway[4][5]

Children's Travel Book of the Year[]

Photography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year[]

Food & Travel Book of the Year[]

  • 2020 , Fire Islands[18]
  • 2019 , Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light[4][5]
  • 2018 , Bart's Fish Tales[6][7]
  • 2017 no award [8]
  • 2016 Tessa Kiros, Provence to Pondicherry[10]

Innovation in Travel Publishing[]

  • 2017-2019 no award
  • 2016 James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti, Where the Animals Go[10]

New Travel Writer of the Year[]

  • 2019 , Reflections of Dubai[4][5]
  • 2018 , The Village Sledge Run[6][7]
  • 2017 no award [8]
  • 2016 , The Tiger's Tail[10]

Travel Blog of the Year[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c Michael Kerr (7 July 2008). "Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 July 2008.
  2. ^ ""Suicide by cop" coroner retires". haringey.gov.uk. 13 December 2007. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009.
  3. ^ a b "Stanford Dolman Travel Book o..." edwardstanfordawards. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018 winners". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. February 28, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h "World-Class Shortlist Announced for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2019". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. January 10, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018 winners". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. February 1, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h "The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Announces 2018 Shortlist". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. January 10, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i Award year shifted from being the year the books were published to the year the award was presented.
  9. ^ Katherine Cowdrey (3 February 2017). "Julian Sayarer's Interstate named Travel Book of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2016". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  11. ^ Michael Kerr (2 July 2015). "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award: shortlist announced". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  12. ^ a b Michael Kerr (28 September 2015). "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award 2015 winner announced". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  13. ^ "2014 winner". authorsclub.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  14. ^ "2013 winner". authorsclub.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  15. ^ "Telegraph Travel writer wins Dolman award". The Daily Telegraph. 6 Sep 2012. Archived from the original on 9 September 2014.
  16. ^ "Ian Thomson wins 2010 Dolman Travel Book of the Year". dolmanprize.wordpress.com. 7 July 2010. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012.
  17. ^ Blake Friedmann. "STREET WITHOUT A NAME shortlisted for Authors' Club Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2009". blakefriedmann.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012.
  18. ^ "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020". Travel Writing World.

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