Anthony Anaxagorou's HERITAGE AESTHETICS long listed for the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 2023
Anthony Anaxagorou's HERITAGE AESTHETICS long listed for the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 2023
We're very thrilled with the news that Anthony Anaxagorou has been long listed for the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 2023 for HERITAGE AESTHETICS (Granta, 2022), which celebrates literature about Greece.
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 list, which covers books 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 Award Ceremony for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023 is scheduled to be held in the Great Hall of King’s College London on Monday 19 June 2023, at 7pm. Details of the award ceremony and of the short list will be announced in due course.
The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award is sponsored by the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. The value of the prize to the winner is £10,000.