24 June 2014 – IMMEDIATE RELEASE
English PEN is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2014 PEN/Ackerley Prize for Memoir. The shortlisted titles are:
Julian Barnes Levels of Life (Cape)
Michael Blakemore Stage Blood (Faber)
Sonali Deraniyagala Wave (Virago)
Harry Eyres Horace and Me (Bloomsbury)
Penelope Lively Ammonites and Leaping Fish (Fig Tree)
The PEN/Ackerley prize was established in memory of Joe Randolph Ackerley (1896-1967), the author and long-time literary editor of The Listener magazine. The Prize is awarded annually to a literary autobiography of outstanding merit, written by an author of British nationality and published in the UK in the previous year.
The PEN/Ackerley prize is judged by biographer and historian Peter Parker (chair), writer and painter Colin Spencer, author Georgina Hammick and historian and biographer Richard Davenport-Hines.