International Autobiography of the Year

About The Award

The Sports Book Awards International Autobiography of the Year is awarded to the best autobiographical sports book, written by an overseas Sportsperson. While the shortlists are selected by our panel of expert reviewers, the winner will come down to a public vote, live on the awards website!

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Pinsent Masons International Autobiography of the year Winner 2020_

Godspeed

By Casey Legler

Godspeed is Olympic Swimmer Casey Legler’s unflinching, poetic memoir that chronicles a painful girlhood as an athletic prodigy wrestling with loneliness, queer identity and addiction, and an extraordinary life competing at the highest levels of professional swimming.

Pinsent Masons International Autobiography of the year Shortlist 2021_

Robbo: Now You’re Gonna Believe Us
Andy Robertson
Out of the Darkness
Matt Piper
Mud, Maul, Mascara
Catherine Spencer
Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer
Jamie Redknapp
Fast Forward
Andrew Cole
Born Fighter
Ruqsana Begum

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