Premio PEN/Ackerley
# Premio PEN/Ackerley

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
