About the prize

Call for submissions for the 2024 London Hellenic Prize

Now in its 28th year, the Prize will be awarded once more to an original work, first published in 2024, written in (or translated into) English on a subject relating to, or inspired by, Hellenic civilization, culture, history or literature.

Subjects have always been unrestricted and cover the full spectrum of Hellenism from ancient to modern times. Since its inception in 1996 the Prize has been awarded to books on archaeology, architecture, art, classics, history, literary criticism, religion, social studies, as well as fiction. The LHP seeks to recognize works of originality and excellence in any of these fields which appeal to the educated general reader.

 The bursary of the Prize has been 10,000 GBP since inception.

Over one hundred books are submitted each year and every effort is made to ensure that all important publications in English on Hellenism and Greece are taken into consideration. The winning shortlisted titles are often translated into Greek and published in Greece, thus completing the Anglo-Hellenic cultural objectives which the London Hellenic Prize was founded to support.

2023 Winner

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2023 Winner ***

Many congratulations to Peter Sarris, this year's winner of the London Hellenic Prize, for his authoritative and groundbreaking biography, 

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

published by Basic Books UK. We are very proud to be promoting such a worthy winner!

Peter Sarris is Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

2023 Shortlist

Adjudicating Committee