Lily Le Brun receives the RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction 2018

We are delighted to announced the recipients of the second RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for first commissioned works of Non-Fiction are:

  • £10,000 – Laurence Blair – Lost Countries of South America: Travels in a Continent’s Past and Present(The Bodley Head, 2020)
  • £5,000 – Lily Le Brun- Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists (Hodder and Stoughton, 2020)
  • Judges’ Special Commendation – awarded to Paul Craddock for his work in progress Dragon in a Suitcase: A Cultural History of the Art of Transplant (Fig Tree, 2020)

This year’s Awards were judged by Iain Sinclair (Chair), Laura Bates, Aida Edemariam and Fiona St Aubyn.

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