Chanticleer International Book Awards
2023 Chaucer Awards Finalist
I am proud to announce that my book made it into the 2023 Chaucer Awards Finalist round. The Chaucer Book Awards recognizes the best of the best in Historical Fiction featuring the Pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is the first Historical Fiction division created at Chanticleer.
This is from the Chanticleer Website
Chanticleer Book Reviews is seeking for the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
That they chose my book is very exciting!
This is the path that a Chanticleer Finalist had to trod to make it the finals.
I am surprised and very proud to have made it this far.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer, anyway?
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is considered one of the greatest works in the English language. It was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed.
From the Chanticleer website used with permission
- born c. 1342/43 probably in London. He died on October 25, 1400
- his father was a London vintner
- His family’s finances depended upon wine and leather
- Chaucer spoke Middle English and was fluent in French, Latin, and Italian
- He guided diplomatic missions across the continent of Europe for ten years where he discovered the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio whose The Decameron had a profound influence on Chaucer’s later works
- His remains are interred in the Westminster Abbey