The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature. The £10,000 award is for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that evokes the "spirit of a place", and is written by someone who is a citizen of or who has been resident in the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
The prize bears the name of its benefactor Sir Christopher Ondaatje. The prize incorporates the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, which was presented up to 2002 for regional fiction.
Winners YearAuthorTitleRef.2004Hearing Birds Fly20052006 2007In the Country of Men20082009Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History2010201120122013Scenes from Early Life2014This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood2015Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood2016Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible2017Golden Hill2018Mama Amazonica201920202021 (also published as The Butchers' Blessing)2022Free: Coming of Age at the End of History2023Anthony AnaxagorouHeritage Aesthetics2024Ian PenmanFassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors2025Carys DaviesClear2026Diana McCaulayA House for Miss Pauline
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