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Bumper shortlist for 2023 Tony Lothian Prize
The Biographers’ Club has announced the six submissions competing for the 2023 Tony Lothian Prize, worth £2,000, with twice as many shortlisted authors as last year.
The award is given for the best uncommissioned proposal by a first-time biographer and administered by the Biographers’ Club in London.
This year’s shortlist includes six submissions compared to last year’s three with subjects including French author Gustave Flaubert, Fleet Street pioneer Ada Chesterton and New York Times journalist Renata Adler.
The judges include Lindsay Duguid, critic and former editor at the TLS, former Jonathan Cape publisher Dan Franklin and Catharine Morris, associate editor at the TLS specialising in the fields of biography and history.
The finalists are as follows:
- Victoria Baena is nominated for A Sentimental Education — Amélie Bosquet, Gustave Flaubert, and the Writer’s Vocation in Nineteenth-Century France
- Stephanie Genty: Bitter Strength — The Life and Work of Marilyn French, Feminist
- Andrew Kenrick: Juba — From Roman Slave to African King
- Sue Laurence: Ada Chesterton — Fleet Street Bohemian and Adventurer
- Andrew Moscrop: Upriver, after Fred: A Thames Journey
- Matthew Zipf: Renata Adler — At the Radical Middle
The prize will be presented at the Biographers’ Club Christmas Party on Monday (11th December).
It is dedicated to Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian who was also known as Tony Lothian. She was an Italian-born British aristocrat, journalist and writer who died in 2007. The award is sponsored by her daughter, Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch.
Last year’s winner was Catherine Haig for An Unfinished Life – Lady Gwendolen Cecil (1860–1945).
