Il Premio PEN/Ackerley (J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography) è un riconoscimento letterario assegnato annualmente ad un'opera autobiografica d'eccellenza.
È stato istituito nel 1982 in memoria dello scrittore e giornalista Joe Ackerley su iniziativa della sorella Nancy.
Amministrato dall'English PEN, riconosce al vincitore un premio di 3000 sterline.
Albo d'oro 1982: Edward Blishen, Shaky Relations 1983: Kathleen Dayus, Her People ex aequo Ted Walker, High Path 1984: Richard Cobb, Still Life 1985: Angelica Garnett, Ingannata con dolcezza (Deceived with Kindness) 1986: Dan Jacobson, Time and Time Again 1987: Diana Athill, After the Funeral 1988: Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess 1989: John Healy, The Grass Arena 1990: Germaine Greer, Viaggio intorno al padre (Daddy We Hardly Knew You) 1991: Paul Binding, St Martin's Ride 1992: John Osborne, Almost a Gentleman 1993: Barry Humphries, More, Please 1994: Blake Morrison, When Did You Last See Your Father? 1995: Paul Vaughan, Something in Linoleum 1996: Eric Lomax, Le due vie del destino - The Railway Man (The Railway Man) 1997: Tim Lott, The Scent of Dried Roses 1998: Katrin Fitzherbert, True to Both Myselves 1999: Margaret Forster, Precious Lives 2000: Mark Frankland, Child of My Time 2001: Lorna Sage, Bad Blood 2002: Michael Foss, Out of India: A Raj Childhood 2003: Jenny Diski, Stranger on a Train 2004: Bryan Magee, Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood 2005: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Half an Arch 2006: Alan Bennett, Untold Stories 2007: Brian Thompson, Keeping Mum 2008: Miranda Seymour, In My Father's House 2009: Julia Blackburn, The Three of Us 2010: Gabriel Weston, Direct Red: A Surgeon's View of Her Life-or-Death Profession 2011: Michael Frayn, My Father’s Fortune 2012: Duncan Fallowell, How to Disappear 2013: Richard Holloway, Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt 2014: Sonali Deraniyagala, Onda (Wave) 2015: Henry Marsh, Primo non nuocere: Storie di vita, morte e neurochirurgia (Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery) 2016: Alice Jolly, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns 2017: Amy Liptrot, Nelle isole estreme (The Outrun) 2018: Richard Beard, The Day That Went Missing 2019: Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible 2020: Alison Light, A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation 2021: Claire Wilcox, Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes 2022: Frances Stonor Saunders, The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border 2023: Nancy Campbell, Thunderstone: Finding Shelter from the Storm 2024: Catherine Taylor, The Stirrings: Essays in Northern Time 2025: Jeff Young, Wild Twin 2026: Geoff Dyer, Compiti a casa (Homework)
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