Sir Israel Gollancz Prize is awarded biannually by the British Academy in honour of Israel Gollancz, a founder member and its first secretary, since 1924. Originally named "Biennial Prize for English Literature" and renamed after Gollancz's death in 1930, the award was established on the initiative of Frida Mond. It is awarded to scholars of Old and Early English language and literature and history of the English language.[1]
Winners edit
The following have received the prize:[2]
- 1925: Joseph Wright
- 1927: R. W. Chambers
- 1929: Professor Allen Mawer
- 1931: H. C. K. Wyld
- 1933: C. T. Onions
- 1935: Sir W. A. Craigie
- 1937: C. S. Lewis
- 1939: J. M. Manly
- 1941: Karl Young
- 1943–1950: No award
- 1951: Dorothy Whitelock
- 1953: Kenneth Sisam
- 1955: Bruce Dickins
- 1957: Florence Harmer
- 1959: Neil Ker
- 1963: George Kane
- 1965: Albert Hugh Smith
- 1969: Kenneth Cameron
- 1971: Phyllis Hodgson
- 1973: Norman Davis
- 1975: Rosemary Woolf
- 1977: E. J. Dobson
- 1979: J. A. W. Bennett
- 1981: A. J. Aitken
- 1983: Ian Doyle[3]
- 1985: Anne Hudson
- 1987: Bruce Mitchell
- 1989: Angus McIntosh
- 1991: Anne Hudson
- 1993: Patrick Sims-Williams
- 1995: H. Leith Spencer
- 1997: Fred Robinson
- 1999: George Kane (2nd award)
- 2001: Malcolm Godden and Peter Clemoes
- 2003: Robert Lewis
- 2005: Patrick P. O'Neill
- 2007: William James Simpson
- 2009: Michael Lapidge
- 2011: Jill Mann
- 2013: Leslie Lockett
- 2015: Ralph Hanna
- 2017: Helmut Gneuss
- 2019: David Wallace "for his lifetime contribution into the study of Chaucer and Medieval English literature"[4]
- 2021: Richard Dance, Sara Pons-Sanz, and Brittany Schorn (The Gersum Project), "for its innovative contribution to the study of the etymology of Middle English"[5]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Sir Israel Gollancz Prize". British Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ For pre-2000 recipients: "Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Prize" (British Academy). Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ Richard Beadle, "Ian Doyle", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, vol. 21 (2023), pp. 71–106.
- ^ "Sir Israel Gollancz Prize". The British Academy. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
- ^ "Leading slavery scholar wins prestigious British Academy prize for contributions to humanities and social sciences". The British Academy. Retrieved 2 September 2021.