PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2023 judges announced

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PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2023 judges announced

English PEN is delighted to announce the judges for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2023: author and academic Dan Hicks (Chair of Judges) will be joined by environmental humanities scholar and art historian Sria Chatterjee, and artistic director of the Migration Museum Aditi Anand to judge this year’s PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize is awarded annually for a non-fiction book of specifically historical content – that is, not primarily written for the academic market – and can cover all historical periods. Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the 1960s and 1970s. On her death in 1999, she bequeathed £100,000 to English PEN.

Last year’s PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize was awarded to Francesca Stavrakopoulou for God: An Anatomy (Picador).

The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2023 shortlist will be announced in October 2023.

Dan Hicks (Chair)

Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. His last book was The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution (Pluto 2020). Dan's next book Every Monument Will Fall, will be published by Cornerstone in 2024.

Sria Chatterjee

Sria Chatterjee is an environmental humanities scholar and an art historian. Currently Head of Research and Learning at the Paul Mellon Centre in London, she directs a project on Climate & Colonialism and has published widely in the histories of art, science, and environment. She holds a PhD from Princeton University.

Aditi Anand

Aditi Anand is the Artistic Director of the Migration Museum. Over the past eight years, she has developed the creative vision for the museum and curated exhibitions exploring how migration has shaped who we are, as individuals and as a nation.