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Catch up: 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize

14 July 2016 - by Robert Sharp - Leave a Comment

On 12 July English PEN hosted the 2016 PEN Ackerley prizegiving event at the Free Word Centre in London. Nominees Adam Mars-Jones, author of Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My …

Alice Jolly awarded 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize

12 July 201610 August 2016 - by Robert Sharp - 2 Comments.

Author of crowdfunded book Dead Babies and Seaside Towns thanked publishers and subscribers who ‘stuck by this book all the way and believed in it when other people didn’t’

AA Gill, Alice Jolly and Adam Mars-Jones on 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize shortlist

21 June 201613 July 2016 - by Hannah Trevarthen - 2 Comments.

English PEN is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize for memoir and life writing