Duff Cooper Prize
The Duff Cooper Prize is a British literary prize . It was launched in memory of the diplomat Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich and has been awarded annually since 1956 for a political, historical, biographical or (less often) lyric work. The award is endowed with £ 5000.
Award winners
- 1956: Alan Moorehead , Gallipoli
- 1957: Lawrence Durrell , Bitter Lemons
- 1958: John Betjeman , Collected Poems
- 1959: Patrick Leigh Fermor Mani
- 1960: Andrew Young Collected Poems
- 1961: Jocelyn Baines Joseph Conrad
- 1962: Michael Howard , The Franco-Prussian War
- 1963: Aileen Ward , John Keats: The Making of a Poet
- 1964: Ivan Morris , The World of the Shining Prince
- 1965: George D. Painter , Marcel Proust
- 1966: Nirad C. Chaudhuri , The Continent of Circe
- 1967: JA Baker , The Peregrine
- 1968: Roy Fuller , New Poems
- 1969: John Gross , The Man of Letters
- 1970: Enid McLeod , Charles of Orleans
- 1971: Geoffrey Grigson , Discoveries of Bones and Stones
- 1972: Quentin Bell , Virginia Woolf
- 1973: Robin Lane Fox , Alexander the Great
- 1974: Jon Stallworthy , Wilfred Owen
- 1975: Seamus Heaney , North
- 1976: Denis Mack Smith , Mussolini's Roman Empire
- 1977: ER Dodds , Missing Persons
- 1978: Mark Girouard , Life in the English Country House
- 1979: Geoffrey Hill , Tenebrae
- 1980: Robert Bernard Martin , Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
- 1981: Victoria Glendinning , Edith Sitwell
- 1982: Richard Ellmann , James Joyce
- 1983: Peter Porter , Collected Poems
- 1984: Hilary Spurling , Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1884-1919
- 1985: Ann Thwaite , Edmund Gosse
- 1986: Alan Crawford , CR Ashbee
- 1987: Robert Studley Forrest Hughes , The Fatal Shore
- 1988: Humphrey Carpenter , The Life of Ezra Pound
- 1989: Ian Gibson , Federico Garcia Lorca
- 1990: Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil , Clever Hearts
- 1991: Ray Monk , Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1992: Peter Hennessy , Never Again
- 1993: John Keegan , A History of Warfare
- 1994: David Gilmour , Curzon
- 1995: Gitta Sereny , Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
- 1996: Diarmaid MacCulloch , Cranmer
- 1997: James Buchan , Frozen Desire
- 1998: Richard Holmes , Coleridge: Darker Reflections
- 1999: Adam Hochschild , King Leopold's Ghost
- 2000: Robert Skidelsky , John Maynard Keynes
- 2001: Margaret MacMillan , Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
- 2002: Jane Ridley , The Architect and his Wife
- 2003: Anne Applebaum , Gulag: A History
- 2004: Mark Mazower , Salonica: City of Ghosts
- 2005: Maya Jasanoff , Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire
- 2006: William Dalrymple , The Last Mughal
- 2007: Graham Robb , The Discovery of France
- 2008: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin , American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 2009: Robert John Service , Trotsky: A Biography
- 2010: Sarah Bakewell , How to Live: A Life of Montaigne
- 2011: Robert Douglas Fairhurst , Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
- 2012: Sue Prideaux , Strindberg - A Life
- 2013: Lucy Hughes-Hallett , The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio
- 2014: Patrick McGuinness , Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory
- 2015: Ian Bostridge , Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
- 2016: Christopher de Hamel , Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- 2017: Anne Applebaum , Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
- 2018: Julian Jackson , De Gaulle
- 2019: John Barton , A History of the Bible
Web links
- official website (English)