Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji (published in the U.S. by Yale University Press) has won the £50,000 (about $63,400) 2024 Wolfson History Prize, honoring "the best historical writing being produced in the U.K."
Judges called Shadows at Noon "a captivating history of modern South Asia, full of fascinating insights about the lives of its peoples. Written with verve and energy, this book beautifully blends the personal and the historical."
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Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon has won the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Chair of judges Peter Florence called the novel, published in the U.S. by Holt, "a delightful mash of contemporary Irish comedy and classical Athenian tragedy. It's a caper, a buddy story, and it had us all laughing and cheering Ferdia Lennon's comic spirit." Lennon receives a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année, the complete set of the Everyman's Library P.G. Wodehouse collection, and a pig named after his winning book.