The Runciman Award is an annual literary award offered by the Anglo-Hellenic League for a work published in English dealing wholly or in part with Greece or Hellenism. [1] On some years the prize has been awarded jointly and shared between two or more authors. The award is named in honour of the late Sir Steven Runciman and is currently sponsored (since 2021) by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation. [2] The value of the prize is £10,000.
Prizes awarded for books published in the United Kingdom in the previous year:
| Year | Name | Work | Editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | David Constantine | Travellers in Greece | Cambridge University Press |
| 1987 | No award | - | - |
| 1988 | John S. Koliopoulos | Brigands with a Cause:Brigandage and Irredentism in Modern Greece, 1820-1921 | Oxford University Press |
| 1989 | Rowland J. Mainstone | Hagia Sophia: Architecture,Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church | Thames and Hudson |
| 1990 | John Gould | Herodotus | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| 1991 | Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones | The Academic Papers | Oxford University Press |
| 1992 | Mark Mazower | Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis | Oxford University Press |
| 1992 | Antony Beevor | Crete: the Battle and the Resistance | John Murray |
| 1993 | Richard Clogg | A Concise History of Greece | Cambridge University Press |
| 1994 | Paul Magdalino | The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 | Cambridge University Press |
| 1995 | Roderick Beaton | An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature | Oxford University Press |
| 1996 | Sir John Boardman | The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity | Thames and Hudson |
| 1996 | Dr Rosemary Morris | Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118 | Cambridge University Press |
| 1997 | Andrew Dalby | Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece | Routledge |
| 1997 | Oliver Rackham & Jennifer Moody | The Making of the Cretan Landscape | Manchester University Press |
| 1997 | Gelina Harlaftis | A History of Greek-owned Shipping: the Making of an International Tramp Fleet, 1830 to the present day | Routledge |
| 1997 | Nigel Spivey | Understanding Greek Sculpture:Ancient Meanings, Modern Readings | Thames and Hudson |
| 1998 | George Cawkwell | Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War | Routledge |
| 1998 | Dr Martin West | The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth | Clarendon Press, Oxford |
| 1998 | Prof. Robin Cormack | Painting and the Soul: Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds | Reaktion Books |
| 1998 | Patricia Storace | Dinner with Persephone | Granta Books |
| 1999 | Ian MacNiven | Lawrence Durrell: a Biography | Faber & Faber |
| 1999 | Christopher Stray | Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960 | Clarendon Press, Oxford |
| 1999 | Dr Jenny March | Dictionary of Classical Mythology | Cassell |
| 2000 | Prof. J. V. Luce | Celebrating Homer’s Landscapes | Yale University Press |
| 2000 | Dr Reviel Netz | The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History | Cambridge University Press |
| 2001 | Dr Cyprian Broodbank | An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades | Cambridge University Press |
| 2002 | James Whitley | The Archaeology of Ancient Greece | Cambridge University Press |
| 2003 | Sir John Boardman | The Archaeology of Nostalgia:How the Greeks re-created their Mythical Past | Thames and Hudson |
From 2004, prizes have been awarded for books published in English anywhere in the world in the previous year:
| Year | Name | Work | Editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Roderick Beaton | George Seferis – Waiting for the Angel – A Biography | Yale University Press |
| 2005 | Mark Mazower | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews | Harper Collins |
| 2006 | Robin Lane Fox | The Classical World | Time Warner Book Group |
| Tom Holland | Persian Fire | Allen Lane | |
| 2007 | Bruce Clark | Twice a Stranger | Granta Books |
| Robert Holland & Diana Markides | The British and the Hellenes | Oxford University Press | |
| 2008 | Imogen Grundon | The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury | Libri Publications |
| 2009 | K.E. Fleming | Greece - A Jewish History | Princeton University Press |
| 2010 | Juliet du Boulay | Cosmos, Life and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village | Denise Harvey Publishers |
| 2011 | Molly Greene | Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean | Princeton University Press |
| Emily Greenwood | Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the 20th Century | Oxford University Press | |
| 2012 | Peter Thonemann | The Maeander Valley | Cambridge University Press |
| 2013 | Simon Goldhill | Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy | Oxford University Press |
| 2014 | Roderick Beaton | Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution [3] | Cambridge University Press |
| 2015 | Armand M. Leroi | The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2016 | Sharon E. J. Gerstel | Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium | Cambridge University Press |
| 2017a (jointly) | Ivan Drpić | Epigram, Art and Devotion in Later Byzantium | Cambridge University Press |
| 2017b (jointly) | Marc Domingo Gygax | Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City | Cambridge University Press |
| 2018a (jointly) | Matthew Simonton | Classical Greek Oligarchy | Princeton University Press |
| 2018b (jointly) | Colm Tóibín | House of Names | Penguin/Viking |
| 2019a (jointly) | Paul J. Kosmin | Time and its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire | Belknap Press of Harvard |
| 2019b (jointly) | Robin Osborne | The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece | Princeton University Press |
| 2020/21 | Roderick Beaton | Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation | Allen Lane |
| 2022 | Ian Collins | John Craxton: A Life of Gifts | Yale University Press |
| 2023 | A. E. Stallings | This Afterlife: Selected Poems | Carcanet |
| 2024 | Islam Issa | Alexandria: The City that Changed the World | Sceptre |
| 2025 | Sasha Dugdale | The Strongbox [4] | Carcanet |