Duff Cooper Prize
Le Duff Cooper Prize est un prix littéraire remis chaque année à un essai en histoire, en sciences politiques ou une biographie publié en anglais ou en français . Le prix porte le nom de Duff Cooper , ambassadeur britannique à Paris et auteur à succès. Il a été remis pour la première fois en 1956 à Alan Moorehead pour Gallipoli . Le gagnant reçoit un exemplaire de la première édition de l'autobiographie de Duff Cooper et 5 000 £ .
Lauréats
1956 - Alan Moorehead , Gallipoli
1957 - Lawrence Durrell , Bitter Lemons
1958 - John Betjeman , Collected Poems
1959 - Patrick Leigh Fermor , Mani, voyages dans le sud du Péloponnèse
1960 - Andrew Young (en) , 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 Painter , Marcel Proust
1966 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri (en) , 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 (en) , Charles of Orleans
1971 - Geoffrey Grigson (en) , 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: A Unicorn Among the Lions
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: A Literary Landscape, 1849-1928
1986 - Alan Crawford, C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist
1987 - Robert Hughes , The Fatal Shore
1988 - Humphrey Carpenter , A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound
1989 - Ian Gibson , Federico Garcia Lorca
1990 - Hugh Cecil et Mirabel Cecil, Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly Maccarthy : A Biography
1991 - Ray Monk , Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
1992 - Peter Hennessy , Never Again: Britain, 1945-1951
1993 - John Keegan , A History of Warfare
1994 - David Gilmour , Curzon: Imperial Statesman
1995 - Gitta Sereny , Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
1996 - Diarmaid MacCulloch , Thomas Cranmer: A Life
1997 - James Buchan , Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money
1998 - Richard Holmes , Coleridge: Darker Reflections
1999 - Adam Hochschild , Les Fantômes du roi Léopold
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: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
2005 - Maya Jasanoff (en) , Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire
2006 - William Dalrymple , The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
2007 - Graham Robb , The Discovery of France
2008 - Kai Bird et Martin J. Sherwin , American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2009 - Robert Service , Trotski
2010 - Sarah Bakewell , How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
2011 - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst , Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
2012 – Sue Prideaux (en) , 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: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Empire
2021 - Mark Mazower , The Greek Revolution (en)
2022 - Anna Keay , The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
2023 - Julian T. Jackson , France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
2024 - Sue Prideaux , Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
2025 - Tim Bouverie , Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler