Noo Saro-Wiwa, Nikki May, and Éric Chacour are on the Edward Stanford Travel Book Awards 2025 shortlists announced on December 7, 2024.
The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, presented by Viking Cruises, celebrate the world’s best travel writers. The UK-based prize comprises the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year, the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place, the Bradt Travel Guides New Travel Writer of the Year, and the Children’s Travel Book of the Year. Novuyo Rosa Tshuma won in the fiction category in 2019.
For 2024, submissions were judged by a panel of travel writers, Stanfords and Viking team members, and literary experts, and the shortlists were announced on Saturday. The following writers of African descent are in the running;
Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year
- Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China, Noo Saro-Wiwa
Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place
- This Motherless Land, Nikki May
- What I Know About You, Éric Chacour
Responses
My book, Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China’ (by @canongatebooks) has been shortlisted for the @stanfordstravel 2025 Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 😄
Noo Saro-Wiwa
Overjoyed that #thismotherlessland ’ set in: Lagos & England has been SHORTLISTED for the 2025 Viking Fiction with a Sense of Place Award. I love @stanfordstravel bookshop and am blown away to be in such good company. 💚🦜
Nikki May
The winners, along with the Bradt New Travel Writer of the Year (for unpublished writers), will be announced at a celebratory event in March. Each award winner will be presented with a hand-made globe from the Lander & May workshop located on the Isle of Wight featuring a design produced exclusively for the awards.
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