The Duff Cooper Prize (currently known as the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize) is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of history, biography, political science or occasionally poetry, published in English or French. The prize was established in honour of Duff Cooper, a British diplomat, Cabinet member and author. The prize was first awarded in 1956 to Alan Moorehead for his Gallipoli. At present, the winner receives a first edition copy of Duff Cooper's autobiography Old Men Forget and a cheque for £5,000.

Overview

After Duff Cooper's death in 1954, a group of his friends decided to establish a trust to endow a literary prize in his memory. The trust appoints five judges. Two of them are ex officio: the Warden of New College, Oxford, and a member of Duff Cooper's family (initially, Duff Cooper's son, John Julius Norwich for the first thirty-six years, and then John Julius' daughter, Artemis Cooper). The other three judges appointed by the trust serve for five years and they appoint their own successors. The first three judges were Maurice Bowra, Cyril Connolly and Raymond Mortimer. At present, the three appointed judges are biographer Mark Amory, historian Susan Brigden, and TLS history editor David Horspool.

From 2013, the prize has been known as The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, following a sponsorship by Pol Roger.[1]

Winners

Duff Cooper Prize winners[2]
Year Author Title Ref.
1956 Alan Moorehead Gallipoli
1957 Lawrence Durrell Bitter Lemons
1958 John Betjeman Collected Poems
1959 Patrick Leigh Fermor Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
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 [3][4]
1964 Ivan Morris The World of the Shining Prince
1965 George Painter Marcel Proust
1966 Nirad C. Chaudhuri The Continent of Circe [5]
1967 J. A. Baker The Peregrine [6]
1968 Roy Fuller New Poems
1969 John Gross The Man of Letters
1970 Enid McLeod Charles of Orleans: Prince & Poet
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: 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 and 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 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
2000 Robert Skidelsky John Maynard Keynes
2001 Margaret MacMillan Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War [7]
2002 Jane Ridley The Architect and His Wife [8]
2003 Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History [9]
2004 Mark Mazower Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 [10]
2005 Maya Jasanoff Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire [11]
2006 William Dalrymple The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 [12]
2007 Graham Robb The Discovery of France
2008 Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer [13]
2009 Robert Service Trotsky: A Biography [14]
2010 Sarah Bakewell How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer [15]
2011 Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist [16]
2012 Sue Prideaux Strindberg: A Life [17][18]
2013 Lucy Hughes-Hallett The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War [19]
2014 Patrick McGuinness Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory
2015 Ian Bostridge Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession [20][21]
2016 Christopher de Hamel Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts [22][23]
2017 Anne Applebaum Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine [24][25]
2018 Julian Jackson A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles De Gaulle [26]
2019 John Barton A History of the Bible [27][28]
2020 Judith Herrin Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Empire [29][30]
2021 Mark Mazower The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe [31]
2022 Anna Keay The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown [32][33]
2023 Julian Jackson France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain [34]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Champagne days for winners of the Duff Cooper Prize". London Evening Standard. February 21, 2013. Archived from the original on May 26, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
  2. ^ "1956 - 2016". The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  3. ^ "Obituary Notes: Aileen Ward; Steve Wolfe". Shelf Awareness. 2016-06-14. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  4. ^ "Woman Is First From U.S. To Win Duff Cooper Prize". The New York Times. 1963-12-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  5. ^ "Famous English author Nirad C Chaudhuri was the first Indian to receive this award". India Today. 2018-11-23. Archived from the original on 2022-05-16. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  6. ^ "J. A. Baker". Little Toller Books. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  7. ^ "Margaret Olwen MacMillan". Global Affairs Canada. 2019-04-25. Archived from the original on 2022-09-16. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  8. ^ "Lutyens Biography Wins The Duff Cooper Prize". The Lutyens Trust. Summer 2003. Archived from the original on 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  9. ^ Cowdrey, Katherine (2018-05-11). "Applebaum wins Duff Cooper Prize for a second time". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 2022-11-28. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  10. ^ "British Philhellene Mark Mazower Granted Honorary Greek Citizenship". Greek City Times. 2021-09-23. Archived from the original on 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  11. ^ "Maya Jasanoff". Harvard University. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  12. ^ "William Dalrymple" (PDF). Council on Foreign Relations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-03-08. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  13. ^ "Kai Bird - Medill - Northwestern University". Medill-Northwestern University. Archived from the original on 2022-12-30. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  14. ^ "Hoover Fellow Robert Service Awarded Duff Cooper Prize". Hoover Institution. 2010-03-16. Archived from the original on 2021-12-06. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  15. ^ Spencer, Clare (2011-03-08). "Sarah Bakewell wins 2011 Duff Cooper prize | Creative Writing Tutors". Open University. Archived from the original on 2021-06-15. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  16. ^ Blackburn, David (2012-03-01). "Dickens takes the Duff Cooper Prize". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  17. ^ "Awards: Duff Cooper Prize; Bodley Medal". Shelf Awareness. 2013-02-26. Archived from the original on 2022-01-23. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  18. ^ "Champagne days for winners of the Duff Cooper Prize". Evening Standard. 2013-02-21. Archived from the original on 2020-05-26. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  19. ^ "Awards: Duff Cooper Winner; Stella Longlist". Shelf Awareness. 2014-02-14. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  20. ^ "Awards: L.A. Times Book Finalists; Duff Cooper Winner". Shelf Awareness. 2016-02-24. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  21. ^ Wright, Katy (2016-02-23). "Bostridge wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize". Rhinegold. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  22. ^ "Awards: Rilke for Poetry; Lukas, Lynton; Pol Roger Duff Cooper". Shelf Awareness. 2017-02-22. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  23. ^ "The Duff Cooper Prize 2016". Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  24. ^ "Awards: International Dylan Thomas; Pol Roger Duff Cooper". Shelf Awareness. 2018-05-14. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  25. ^ "New College awards Duff Cooper prize to Red Famine writer". Oxford Mail. 2018-05-11. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  26. ^ "Queen Mary Professor awarded prestigious Duff Cooper Prize". Queen Mary University of London. 2019-02-21. Archived from the original on 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  27. ^ "Awards: Astrid Lindgren, Duff Cooper, Republic of Consciousness Winners; Christian Book Finalists". Shelf Awareness. 2020-04-02. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  28. ^ "John Barton wins Duff Cooper Prize 2019". The Times of India. 2020-04-01. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 2020-05-20. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  29. ^ "Awards: Andrew Carnegie Medal, Pol Roger Duff Cooper Winners". Shelf Awareness. 2021-02-05. Archived from the original on 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  30. ^ Comerford, Ruth (2021-02-01). "Herrin's Ravenna wins Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  31. ^ "Mark Mazower Awarded 2021 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize". The Harriman Institute. 2022-04-21. Archived from the original on 2022-12-23. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  32. ^ Brown, Lauren (2023-03-06). "Anna Keay wins £5,000 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for The Restless Republic". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 2023-03-11. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  33. ^ Kan, Toni (2023-03-07). "Anna Keay's "The Restless Republic" wins £5,000 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize". The Lagos Review. Archived from the original on 2023-03-08. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  34. ^ Bayley, Sian (2024-03-04). "Julian Jackson wins £5k Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2024-03-16.

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