Awards & Winners

Hilary Spurling

Date of Birth 25-December-1940
Place of Birth Stockport
(Cheshire, United Kingdom, England)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Journalist, Writer, Author, Biographer
Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL is a British writer, known for her work as a journalist and biographer. Spurling was educated at Clifton High School, an independent school in Bristol in South West England, followed by Somerville College, Oxford. She won the Whitbread Prize for the second volume of her biography of Henri Matisse in January 2006. Burying The Bones: Pearl Buck in China was published in March 2010. She is married to playwright John Spurling, and has three children and six grandchildren.

Awards by Hilary Spurling

Check all the awards nominated and won by Hilary Spurling.

2005


Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
Honored for : Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse - The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
Costa Book of the Year
Honored for : Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse - The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954

1998


New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
Honored for : The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume One, 1869-1908

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NCR Book Award Paul Scott : a life