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Authors Alexander Monro, Roger Beam and Jonathan Beckman have been awarded the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction.
Monro received £10,000 for The Paper Trail, his study of the story of paper from its invention in China 2,000 years ago, which will be published by Penguin Press later this year.
Beam was awarded £5,000 for Englandspiel, to be published be Haynes later in 2011, about an intelligence disaster during the Second World War.
Beckman received the second £5,000 prize for Cardinal Sins-Marie Antoinette and the Affair of the Necklace, the tale of the theft of Europe’s most expensive piece of jewellery, which took place shortly before the French Revolution. Fourth Estate publishes in 2013.
The RSL and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation offer the three annual awards, one of £10,000 and two of £5,000, to authors engaged on their first major commissioned works of non-fiction.