Samuel Johnson Prize
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The Samuel Johnson Prize is one of the world's most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award and based on an anonymous donation and is managed by BBC Four. Each winner receives £30000 and each finalist £2500.
The prize is named after Samuel Johnson.
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[edit] 2008
The winner will be announced on July 15.
The shortlist is:
- Tim Butcher: Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
- Mark Cocker: Crow Country
- Orlando Figes: The Whisperers
- Patrick French: The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul
- Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise
- Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House
[edit] 2007
The 2007 winner was Rajiv Chandrasekaran for Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
The other books on the 2007 shortlist were:
- Ian Buruma: Murder in Amsterdam
- Peter Hennessey: Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties
- Georgina Howell: Daughter of the Desert
- Dominic Streatfeild: Brainwash
- Adrian Tinniswood: The Verneys
[edit] 2006
The 2006 winner was James S. Shapiro for 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
The shortlist was:
- Alan Bennett Untold Stories
- Jerry Brotton The Sale of the Late King's Goods
- Carmen Callil Bad Faith
- Tony Judt Post War
- Tom Reiss The Orientalist
[edit] 2005
The 2005 winner was Jonathan Coe for Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson
The shortlist was:
- Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards
- Suketu Mehta Maximum City
- Orhan Pamuk Istanbul
- Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master
- Sarah Wise The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
[edit] 2004
The 2004 winner was Anna Funder for Stasiland
The shortlist was:
- Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
- Jonathan Bate John Clare: A Biography
- Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Aidan Hartley The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
- Tom Holland Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
[edit] 2003
The 2003 winner was T.J. Binyon for Pushkin
The shortlist was:
- Orlando Figes, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
- Aminatta Forna, The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent
- Olivia Judson, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
- Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- Edgar Vincent, Nelson: Love and Fame
[edit] 2002
The 2002 winner was Margaret MacMillan for Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
The shortlist was:
- Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath
- William Fiennes, author, The Snow Geese
- Richard Hamblyn, The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
- Roy Jenkins, Churchill: a Biography
- Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia
[edit] 2001
The 2001 winner was Michael Burleigh for The Third Reich
The shortlist was:
- Richard Fortey, Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
- Catherine Merridale, Night of Stone
- Graham Robb, Rimbaud
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin
- Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
[edit] 2000
The 2000 winner was David Cairns for Berlioz: Volume 2
The shortlist was:
- Tony Hawks, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
- Brenda Maddox, Yeats's Ghosts
- Matt Ridley, Genome
- William Shawcross, Deliver Us From Evil
- Francis Wheen, Karl Marx
[edit] 1999
The 1999 winner was Antony Beevor for Stalingrad
The shortlist was:
- Ian Kershaw, Hitler
- Ann Wroe, Pilate
- John Diamond, C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
- David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
[edit] See also
- English literature
- British literature
- List of years in literature
- List of prizes
- Prizes named after people
[edit] References
- Previous Winners of the Samuel Johnson prize. www.bbc.co.uk Retrieved 2 December 2006.
- The Samuel Johnson Prize 2005 Shortlist www.bbc.co.uk Retrieved 2 December 2006.
- Samuel Johnson Prize Homepage. www.bbc.co.uk Retrieved 2 December 2006.
