Press Release: Prizes and Awards
Winner Of The Kim Scott Walwyn Prize Announced
Posted at 8:22AM Friday 09 May 2008
Clare Alexander was last night (Thursday 8 May) awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize, which honours outstanding achievements by women in publishing. Clare Alexander was chosen from a shortlist which included Eleo Gordon, Editorial Editor at Viking; Alison Kennedy, Production and Distribution Director at Egmont UK; and Jessica Kingsley, Chairman and Managing Director of Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She was presented with a cheque for £3,000 at a ceremony at St. Anne's College, Oxford. Clare Alexander has spent over twenty years in publishing before becoming an agent in 1998. She was nominated as Orion Publishing Group Literary Agent of the Year at the 2007 British Book Industry Awards. Clare is a member of the Women's Committee of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. She represents a number of successful authors including Sarah Dunant, Virginia Ironside, Clare Allan, Diana Evans and Mark Haddon Hermione Lee of the prize committee commented: "Clare has exactly the combination of professionalism, inspirational editorial influence and know-how, shrewd good sense and range of skills that Kim Scott Walwyn would have admired. From a very high quality shortlist, the judges of the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize are delighted to announce Clare Alexander as the winner for 2008." The prize committee is Professor Dame Gillian Beer DBE, FBA, (King Edward VII Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge); Catherine Clarke (Literary Agent, Felicity Bryan Agency); Denise Johnstone-Burt (Publisher at Walker Books); Kate Jury (formerly Marketing Director at OUP), Hermione Lee CBE (Writer and Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature at University of Oxford), Fiona Maddocks (Arts Feature Writer, Evening Standard); Sarah O'Brien (former Production Director, OUP); and Francine Stock (Novelist and Broadcaster). The Kim Scott Walwyn Prize was awarded in 2004 to Lynette Owen, Copyright Director of Pearson Education Ltd, in 2005 to Penelope Hoare, Deputy Publishing Director of Chatto and Windus and in 2007 to Annette Thomas, Managing Director of Nature Publishing, now CEO of Macmillan. The prize is administered by Booktrust, the independent charity that encourages people of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy reading.
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