Duff Cooper Prize
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 £3,000. The prize was established in honour of Duff Cooper, a British diplomat, Cabinet member and acclaimed author.
Notable past winners:
- 2003 – Anne Applebaum, Gulag – A History of the Soviet Camps
- 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
- 1993 – John Keegan, A History of Warfare
- 1987 – Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore
- 1988 – Humphrey Carpenter, The Life of Ezra Pound
- 1975 – Seamus Heaney, North
- 1958 – John Betjeman, Collected Poems
- 1956 – Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli
See also
External links
Categories: British literary awards