Duff Cooper Prize
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The Duff Cooper Prize is a prize which goes to the best work of history, biography, or political science published in English or French. First awarded in 1956, the prize is worth £5,000. The prize was established in honour of Duff Cooper, a British diplomat, Cabinet member and acclaimed author.
[edit] Winners
- 2007 - Graham Robb, The Discovery Of France
- 2006 - William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
- 2005 - Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire
- 2004 - Mark Mazower, Salonica: City of Ghosts
- 2003 - Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History
- 2002 - Jane Ridley, The Architect and his Wife
- 2001 - Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempts to End War
- 2000 - Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
- 1999 - Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
- 1998 - Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
- 1997 - James Buchan, Frozen Desire
- 1996 - Diarmaid MacCulloch, Cranmer
- 1995 - Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
- 1994 - David Gilmour, Curzon
- 1993 - John Keegan, A History of Warfare
- 1992 - Peter Hennessy, Never Again
- 1991 - Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1990 - Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil, Clever Hearts
- 1989 - Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca
- 1988 - Humphrey Carpenter, The Life of Ezra Pound
- 1987 - Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore
- 1986 - Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee
- 1985 - Ann Thwaite, Edmund Gosse
- 1984 - Hilary Spurling, Ivy Compton-Burnett
- 1983 - Peter Porter, Collected Poems
- 1982 - Richard Ellmann, James Joyce
- 1981 - Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell
- 1980 - Robert Bernard, Martin Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart
- 1979 - Geoffrey Hill , Tenebrae
- 1978 - Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House
- 1977 - E.R.Dodds, Missing Persons
- 1976 - Denis Mack Smith , Mussolini's Roman Empire
- 1975 - Seamus Heaney, North
- 1974 - Jon Stallworthy, Wilfred Owen
- 1973 - Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great
- 1972 - Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf
- 1971 - Geoffrey Grigson, Discoveries of Bones and Stones
- 1970 - Enid McLeod, Charles of Orleans
- 1969 - John Gross, The Man of Letters
- 1968 - Roy Fuller, New Poems
- 1967 - J.A.Baker, The Peregrine
- 1966 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Continent of Circe
- 1965 - George Painter, Marcel Proust
- 1964 - Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince
- 1963 - Aileen Ward, John Keats
- 1962 - Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War
- 1961 - Jocelyn Baines Joseph Conrad
- 1960 - Andrew Young Collected Poems
- 1959 - Patrick Leigh-Fermor Mani
- 1958 - John Betjeman, Collected Poems
- 1957 - Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
- 1956 - Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli
[edit] See also
- List of British literary awards
- List of literary awards
- List of prizes
- Prizes named after people
- English literature
- British literature
