Samuel Johnson Prize
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The Samuel Johnson Prize is one of the world's most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing. It was founded in 1999 based on an anonymous donation and is managed by BBC 4. Each winner receives £30000 and each finalist £2500.
The prize is named after Samuel Johnson.
Past Winners
Winner
- James S. Shapiro 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Shortlist
- Alan Bennett Untold Stories
- Jerry Brotton The Sale of the Late King's Goods
- Carmen Callil Bad Faith
- Tony Judt Post War
- Tom Reiss The Orientalist
Winner
- Jonathan Coe Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson
Shortlist
- Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards
- Suketu Mehta Maximum City
- Orhan Pamuk Istanbul
- Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master
- Sarah Wise The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
Winner
Shortlist
- Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
- Jonathan Bate John Clare: A Biography
- Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Aidan Hartley The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
- Tom Holland Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
Winner
- T.J. Binyon Pushkin
Shortlist
- Orlando Figes, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
- Aminatta Forna, The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent
- Olivia Judson, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
- Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- Edgar Vincent, Nelson: Love and Fame
Winner
Shortlist
- Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath
- William Fiennes, The Snow Geese
- Richard Hamblyn, The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
- Roy Jenkins, Churchill: a Biography
- Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia
Winner
- Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich
Shortlist
- Richard Fortey, Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
- Catherine Merridale, Night of Stone
- Graham Robb, Rimbaud
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin
- Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
Winner
- David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
Shortlist
- Tony Hawks, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
- Brenda Maddox, Yeats's Ghosts
- Matt Ridley, Genome
- William Shawcross, Deliver Us From Evil
- Francis Wheen, Karl Marx
Winner
- Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
Shortlist
- Ian Kershaw, Hitler
- Ann Wroe, Pilate
- John Diamond, C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
- David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
See also
References
- www.bbc.co.uk: [Previous Winners of the Samuel Johnson prize]
- www.bbc.co.uk: [The Samuel Johnson Prize 2005 Shortlist]
External links
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/samueljohnson/
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