Non-Fiction Book Prizes - awarded in 2018

Please add details of any prizes involving non-fiction writing presented in 2018. Like the first award below many will relate partly or wholly to 2017.

Costa Book Awards for 2017

Shortlists for the various awards were revealed around November with the winners announced in January 2018.

Costa Biography Award: Shortlist

Once upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
A Bold and Dangerous Family by Caroline Moorehead
Fragile Lives by Prof. Stephen Westaby

The winner was -

In The Days of Rain by Elizabeth Stott

Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award

1. Outstanding Contribution: Jan Morris

2. Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year: Border by Kapka Kassabova

3. Wonderlust Adventure Travel Book of the Year: Shark Drunk by Morten Andreas Stroksnes

4. London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the Year: The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

5. Food and Travel Magazine Travel Cookery Book of the Year: Bart's Fish by Bart van Olphen

6. Destinations Show Photography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year: Londonist Mapped by AA Publishing

7. Marco Polo Outstanding General Themed Travel Book of the Year: The Amazing Story Of The Man Who Cycled From India To Europe For Love by Per J Andersson

2018 Pulitzer Prizes

- April 16th 2018.

History: The Gulf: The Making Of An American Sea by Jack E Davis

Biography: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

General Non-Fiction: Locking Up Our Own: crime and Punishment in black America by James Forman Jr.

Wellcome Book Prize

Fiction or Non-Fiction work whose main theme involves some aspect of medine, health or illness.

Longlist: Jan 18th

Behave by Robert Sapolsky
In Pursuit of Memory by Joseph Jebelli
Plot 29 by Alan Jenkins
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
The White Book by Han Kang

Shortlist: March 18th

The Vaccine Race by Meredith Wadman
The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
With The End In Mind by Kathryn Mannix
Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

Winner: April 18th

To Be A Machine by Mark O'Connell

Orwell Prize 2018

Presented June 2018 for work published Jan-Dec 2017.

Shortlist:
Winter by Ali Smith
What You Did Not Tell by Mark Mazower
Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine
Lovers & Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills

Winner:
Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey

Cundill History Prize

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World - Maya Jasanoff

Hawthornden Prize for Literature

Mr Lear - Jenny Uglow

also see the prizes group