Non-Fiction Book Prizes - awarded in 2019

Please add details of any prizes involving non-fiction writing presented in 2019. Like the first award below many will relate partly or wholly to works first published in 2018.

also see the prizes group

Costa Book Awards 2018

Costa Biography Award & Book of the Year Winner

The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es

- announced January 29, 2019

Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

New Travel Writer Celia Dillow - Reflections Of Dubai

Food & Travel Book Caroline Eden - Black Sea: dispatches and Recipes Through Darkness and Light

Photography & Illustrated Travel Book Hew Lewis-jones - The Writer's Map

Memoir Guy Stagg - The Crossway

Adventure Travel Book Adam Weymouth - Kings of the Yukon

Outstanding contribution Colin Thubron

Book of the Year William Atkins - The Immeasurable World

2019 Pulitzer Prize

History
finalist - American Eden by Victoria Johnson
finalist - Civilizing Torture by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

winner - Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

Boigraphy
finalist - Proust's Duchess by Caroline Weber
finalist - The Road Not Taken by Max Boot

winner - The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C Stewart

General Non-fiction
finalist - In A Day's Work by Bernice Yeung
finalist - Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush

winner - Amity and Prosperity: One Family and The Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold

Wellcome Book Prize
open to fiction or non-fiction books with a central theme that concerns medicine, health or illness.

shortlist
Amateur: A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee
Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein

Winner
Murmur by Will Eaves

- announced May 1, 2019

Orwell Prize 2019

...For Political Writing Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

...For Political Fiction Milkman by Anna Burns

-announced June 2019

The 2019 Cundill History Prize

Longlist
Unruly Waters by Sunil Amrith
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight
Reckonings by Mary Fulbrook
The A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction by Jay Geller
A Fistful of Shells by Toby Green
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff
I am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux

Shortlist (Sept 19, 2019)

Finalists (October 16, 2019)

Winner (November 14, 2019)