Baillie Gifford Prize
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction is a British literary prize awarded annually since 1999 for non-fiction books written in English .
From 1987 to 1998 the NCR Corporation donated the NCR Book Award . After their departure, BBC Four continued the non-fiction prize as the Samuel Johnson Prize from 1999 , named after Samuel Johnson , the most cited English author after Shakespeare and leading intellectual of the 18th century. From 2009 to 2012 the competition was organized by BBC 2. Since 2016 the award has been named after the new sponsor Baillie Gifford . The endowment fluctuated, in 2019 it was £ 50,000.
Award winners
- 1999: Antony Beevor : Stalingrad
- 2000: David Cairns : Berlioz: Volume 2
- 2001: Michael Burleigh : The Third Reich: A New History
- 2002: Margaret MacMillan : Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
- 2003: TJ Binyon : Pushkin: A Biography
- 2004: Anna Funder : Stasiland: Oh Wasn't it so Terrible - True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
- 2005: Jonathan Coe : Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson
- 2006: James S. Shapiro ; 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- 2007: Rajiv Chandrasekaran : Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
- 2008: Kate Summerscale : The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House
- 2009: Philip Hoare : Leviathan or, The Whale
- 2010: Barbara Demick : Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- 2011: Frank Dikötter : Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
- 2012: Wade Davis : Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
- 2013: Lucy Hughes-Hallett : The Pike
- 2014: Helen Macdonald : H is for Hawk ( H for Habicht )
- 2015: Steve Silberman : NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently (German: The message of autism and how we think smarter about people who think differently )
- 2016: Philippe Sands : East West Street
- 2017: David France : How to Survive a Plague
- 2018: Serhii Plokhy : Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
- 2019: Hallie Rubenhold : The Five: The Untold Lives of The Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hallie Rubenhold Wins 2019 Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize for 'The Five' , articles on Publishing Perspectives of 19 November 2019, accessed on December 1 of 2019.