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 £3,000. The prize was established in honour of Duff Cooper, a British diplomat, Cabinet member and acclaimed author.

Notable past winners:

• 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
• 1958 - John Betjeman, Collected Poems
• 1956 - Alan Moorehead , Gallipoli

See also

• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people

External links

• The Duff Cooper Prize