Duff Cooper Prize

Der Duff Cooper Prize ist ein britischer Literaturpreis. Er wurde im Gedenken an den Diplomaten Alfred Duff Cooper, 1. Viscount Norwich ins Leben gerufen und seit 1956 jährlich für ein politisches, historisches, biografisches oder (seltener) lyrisches Werk verliehen. Der Preis ist mit £ 5000 dotiert.

Preisträger

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: J. A. 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: E. R. 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, C. R. 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 und 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 und 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 T. Jackson, De Gaulle
2019: John Barton, A History of the Bible
2020: Judith Herrin, Ravenna: Crucible of Europe
2021: Mark Mazower, The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
2022: Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
2023: Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

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