Hertfordshire Press
PREVIOUS WINNERS

PREVIOUS WINNERS

Winners of 2019

(for the books of 2017-2018)

  • Bestseller category: the collection “Song of Butterflies” by Ermek Amanshayev
  • Best Author category: “Tales of Grandma Gulsifat” by Gulsifat Shakhidi
  • Best Translation category: “The world dissolves, like a dream”(Leila Aliyeva) translated by Caroline Walton 
  • Best Editing category: “Recycled” (Anna Komar) edited by John Farndon 
  • Breakthrough of the Year category: “Land Drenched in tears” by Soyungul Chanicheff and Rahima Makhmut
  • Best Book Book Series ECG 2018 category: “Cold Shadows” by Shahsanem Murray

Winners of 2022

(for the books of 2019-2021*)

  • Bestsellers category: “War will tell the further plan” by Alexander Kazarnovsky 
  • Best Travel Book category: “Silk Road: Revisited” by Nick Rowan
  • Best Children Book category: “The Egret and the Cow” by Gareth Stamp
  • Critics’ Choice category: “Colourful tears” by Khosiyat Rustam
  • Best Research Book category: “Competence-based modelling of professional foreign language education” by the Kazakh Ablai khan University of International Relations and World Languages, Prof. Salima Kunanbaeva
  • Best Academy Book category: “The Kazakh Model for a Research University” by Tlektes Espolov
  • Best Biography category: “A history of lithuanian writers in the United Kingdom” by Aldona Grupas
  • Best Poetic Book category : “Maestro and Muse” by Sergey Bely
  • Best Love Story category: “Взлететь над жизнью” by Alexandra Lacarre
  • Best Book in Native Language category: “Сундук безумного кукольника” by Nina Yagolnitser

*Ceremony 2021 was cancelled due to the pandemic