Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards comprise two awards, the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year and Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. The award was previously called Dolman Best Travel Book Award (2006-2014). The award is named for Edward Stanford who published the Stanford's Guides travel guide-books and is sponsored by Stanfords, a travel books and map store established in England in 1901.

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.

Travel Book award

Each year a small number of works are shortlisted and a winner is announced in early July at a dinner gala with the authors and publishers in attendance.

Blue ribbon = winner

Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

2015[3][4]

Dolman Best Travel Book Award

2014[5]

2013[6]

2012

2011

2010[8]

2009[9]

2008

2007

2006

Contribution to Travel Writing award

A lifetime achievement award for travel writing. Award inaugurated in 2015.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 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. ↑ Michael Kerr (2 July 2015). "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award: shortlist announced". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  4. 1 2 Michael Kerr (28 September 2015). "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award 2015 winner announced". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "2014 winner". authorsclub.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "2013 winner". authorsclub.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Telegraph Travel writer wins Dolman award". The Telegraph. 6 Sep 2012. Archived from the original on 9 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Ian Thomson wins 2010 Dolman Travel Book of the Year". dolmanprize.wordpress.com. 7 July 2010. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012.
  9. ↑ 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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