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English PEN is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2014 PEN\/Ackerley Prize for Memoir. The shortlisted titles are:<\/p>\n
Julian Barnes Levels of Life (Cape)
\nMichael Blakemore Stage Blood (Faber)
\nSonali Deraniyagala Wave (Virago)
\nHarry Eyres Horace and Me (Bloomsbury)
\nPenelope Lively Ammonites and Leaping Fish (Fig Tree)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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