Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards celebrate the best travel writing and travel writers in the world. The awards include the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.

The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year was previously called Dolman Best Travel Book Award (2006-2014). The award is named after Edward Stanford and is sponsored by Stanfords, a travel books and map store established in London in 1853. The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers.[1] The other award is that made each year by the British Guild of Travel Writers, but that is limited to authors who are members of the Guild.

The first Dolman award was given in 2006, just two years after the only other travel book award - the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award which ran for 25 years - was abandoned by its sponsor.[1] From its founding through 2014, the £1,000 to £2,500 prize was organized by the Authors' Club and was sponsored by and named after club member William Dolman.[1][2] Beginning in 2015, a new sponsor Stanfords, a travel book store, was established along with an increase to £5,000 for the winner.

List of awards

The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards consist of the following:

  • Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, in association with The Authors' Club
  • Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing
  • Fiction with a Sense of Place
  • Adventure Travel Book of the Year
  • Travel Memoir of the Year
  • Children's Travel Book of the Year
  • Travel Blog of the Year
  • Photography and Illustrated Travel Book of The Year
  • Food & Travel Book of the Year
  • Innovation in Travel Publishing
  • New Travel Writer of the Year

Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

= winner

Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

2020[3]

2019[4][5]

  • William Atkins, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
  • Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe’s Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
  • Damian Le Bas, The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
  • Alev Scott, Map and Illustration by Jamie Whyte, Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire
  • Witold Szablowski, Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd Jones)
  • Daniel Trilling, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe

2018 [6][7]

  • Patrick Barkham, Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago
  • Garrett Carr, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border
  • Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
  • Kushanava Choudhury, The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
  • Philip Hoare, Risingtidefallingstar
  • Nick Hunt, Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence
  • Isambard Wilkinson, Photographs by Chev Wilkinson, Travels in a Dervish Cloak

2017 no award[8]

2016[9][10]

  • James Attlee, Station To Station: Searching for Stories On The Great Western Line
  • Geoff Dyer, White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
  • Elisabeth Luard, Squirrel Pie (and other stories): Adventures in Food Across the Globe
  • Jim Perrin, The Hills of Wales
  • Julian Sayarer, Interstate: Hitchhiking Through the State of a Nation
  • Paul Theroux, Deep South

2015[11][12]

  • Philip Marsden, Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
  • Helena Attlee, The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit
  • Horatio Clare, Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men
  • Nick Hunt, Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn
  • Jens Mühling, A Journey into Russia
  • Elizabeth Pisani, Indonesia Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation

Dolman Best Travel Book Award

2014[13]

2013[14]

2012

2011

2010[16]

  • William Blacker, Along the Enchanted Way
  • Horatio Clare, A Single Swallow
  • Matthew Engel, Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain
  • Daniel Metcalfe, Out of Steppe
  • Susan Richards, Lost and Found in Russia
  • Hugh Thomson, Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico
  • Ian Thomson, The Dead Yard

2009[17]

2008

2007

  • Rory McCarthy, Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated
  • David McKie, Great British Bus Journeys
  • Tom Parry, Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback
  • Claire Scobie, Last Seen in Lhasa

2006

Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing award

A lifetime achievement award for travel writing.

Fiction with a Sense of Place

Adventure Travel Book of the Year
  • 2019 Adam Weymouth, Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North[4][5]
  • 2018 Morten Strøksnes, Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean[6][7]
  • 2017 no award [8]
  • 2016 Levison Wood, Walking the Himalayas[10]

Travel Memoir of the Year
  • 2019 Guy Stagg, The Crossway[4][5]

Children's Travel Book of the Year

Photography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year

Food & Travel Book of the Year
  • 2019 Caroline Eden, Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light[4][5]
  • 2018 Bart van Olphen, Bart’s Fish Tales[6][7]
  • 2017 no award [8]
  • 2016 Tessa Kiros, Provence to Pondicherry[10]

Innovation in Travel Publishing
  • 2017-2019 no award
  • 2016 James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti, Where the Animals Go[10]

New Travel Writer of the Year
  • 2019 Celia Dillow, Reflections of Dubai[4][5]
  • 2018 Alan Packer, The Village Sledge Run[6][7]
  • 2017 no award [8]
  • 2016 Dom Tulett, The Tiger's Tail[10]

Travel Blog of the Year

Notes
  1. Michael Kerr (7 July 2008). "Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 July 2008.
  2. ""Suicide by cop" coroner retires". haringey.gov.uk. 13 December 2007. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009.
  3. "Stanford Dolman Travel Book o..." edwardstanfordawards. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  4. "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018 winners". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. February 28, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  5. "World-Class Shortlist Announced for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2019". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. January 10, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  6. "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018 winners". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. February 1, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  7. "The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Announces 2018 Shortlist". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. January 10, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  8. Award year shifted from being the year the books were published to the year the award was presented.
  9. Katherine Cowdrey (3 February 2017). "Julian Sayarer's Interstate named Travel Book of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  10. "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2016". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  11. Michael Kerr (2 July 2015). "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award: shortlist announced". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  12. Michael Kerr (28 September 2015). "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award 2015 winner announced". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  13. "2014 winner". authorsclub.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  14. "2013 winner". authorsclub.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  15. "Telegraph Travel writer wins Dolman award". The Telegraph. 6 Sep 2012. Archived from the original on 9 September 2014.
  16. "Ian Thomson wins 2010 Dolman Travel Book of the Year". dolmanprize.wordpress.com. 7 July 2010. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012.
  17. Blake Friedmann. "STREET WITHOUT A NAME shortlisted for Authors' Club Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2009". blakefriedmann.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012.
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