Professor Mark Mazower wins The Runciman Award, 2005
Winner of The Runciman Award, 2005
Professor Mark Mazower wins The Runciman Award, 2005
Mark Mazower, Professor of History at Columbia University and Birkbeck College, London, prize winning historian and a distinguished commentator on international affairs in the Financial Times and other media, has won this year's Runciman Award for his book 'Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950', published by Harper Collins.
Announcing the £5,000 Award, at a ceremony held at the Hellenic Centre, the Chairman of the panel of judges, Dr. Robin Barber congratulated Professor Mazower for his remarkable history of Greece's second most important city.
It was also announced that the Runciman award for 2006 would be increased in geographical scope and financial value. For 2006, any book published in English, anywhere in the world, provided it meets the criteria of being wholly or mainly about some aspect of Greece or the world of Hellenism, and the value of the prize, sponsored by the National Bank of Greece, would be increased by 80%, to £9,000.
Five other books were shortlisted for the Award:
'Ancient Greek Athletics', by Stephen G Miller, published by Yale University Press.
'The Sea! The Sea! - The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination', published by Duckworth
'The Burial At Thebes: A Translation of Sophocles Antigone', by Seamus Heaney, Published by Faber and Faber
'Money and The Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy', by Richard Seaford, published by Cambridge University Press
'Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities', by Hans van Wees, published by Duckworth
* Note for Editors: The Runciman Award is given for a work, wholly or mainly about some aspect of Greece or the Hellenic scene, which may be fiction or non-fiction.
This year’s
panel of Judges was:
Dr Robin Barber,
Honorary
Fellow of the Faculty of Arts,
Author of The
Sir Roger Tomkys KCMG DL,
Former
Ambassador, Chairman of the Anglo-Hellenic League 1993-1999 and Master of
Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys,
Bywater &
Southeby Professor of Medieval and Modern Greek Language and Literature,
Dr Dionysis Kapsalis,
Director of
the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of
For further information about the Runciman award please contact:
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