Ondaatje Prize
The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature. The £10,000 award is for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that evokes the "spirit of a place", and is written by someone who is a citizen of or who has been resident in the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
The prize bears the name of its benefactor Sir Christopher Ondaatje. The prize incorporates the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, which was presented up to 2002 for regional fiction.Winners
- 2020 Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
- 2019 Aida Edemariam, The Wife’s Tale
- 2018 Pascale Petit, Mama Amazonica
- 2017 Francis Spufford, Golden Hill
- 2016 Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
- 2015 Justin Marozzi, Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood
- 2014 Alan Johnson, This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood
- 2013 Philip Hensher, Scenes from Early Life
- 2012 Rahul Bhattacharya, The Sly Company of People Who Care
- 2011 Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
- 2010 Ian Thomson, '
- 2009 Adam Nicolson, '
- 2008 Graham Robb, The Discovery of France
- 2007 Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
- 2006 James Meek, The People's Act of Love
- 2005 Rory Stewart, The Places In Between
- 2004 Louisa Waugh, Hearing Birds Fly
