Adam nicolson biography

Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson is an English author, former journalist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He writes highly regarded non-fiction on the themes of history, language, literature and nature.

A winner of both the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award (Power and Glory, 2004) and Ondaatje Prize (Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History, 2009), in 2018 he won the Wainwright Prize with his book about the lives, habitats, threats and passions of UK seabirds, The Seabird’s Cry.

Adam nicolson biography

Nicolson has also made several television series, and in 2014 won a Scottish BAFTA for Britain’s Whale Hunters. His most recent book, How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks marks his 25^th publication and is on the shortlist for the 2024 Runciman Award.

“What a complete and life-enlarging delight it is to have been given this prize!

A trinity of the very best of modern novelists has won it before and so, as a non-fiction writer, it feels