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 £5,000. The prize was established in honour of Duff Cooper, a British diplomat, Cabinet member and acclaimed author.

Notable past winners:

• 2007 - William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
• 2005 - Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire
• 2004 - Mark Mazower, Salonica: City of Ghosts
• 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
• 1965 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Continent of Circe
• 1962 - Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War
• 1958 - John Betjeman, Collected Poems
• 1957 - Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
• 1956 - Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli

See also

• List of British literary awards
• List of literary awards
• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people
• English literature
• British literature

External links

• The Duff Cooper Prize