Duff Cooper Prize

Template:Short description 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Winners

Duff Cooper Prize winners<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
1956	Template:Sortname	Gallipoli
1957	Template:Sortname	Bitter Lemons
1958	Template:Sortname	Collected Poems
1959	Template:Sortname	Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
1960	Template:Sortname	Collected Poems
1961	Template:Sortname	Joseph Conrad
1962	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1963	Template:Sortname	John Keats: The Making of a Poet	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1964	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1965	Template:Sortname	Marcel Proust
1966	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1967	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1968	Template:Sortname	New Poems
1969	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1970	Template:Sortname	Charles of Orleans: Prince & Poet
1971	Template:Sortname	Discoveries of Bones and Stones
1972	Template:Sortname	Virginia Woolf
1973	Template:Sortname	Alexander the Great
1974	Template:Sortname	Wilfred Owen
1975	Template:Sortname	North
1976	Template:Sortname	Mussolini's Roman Empire
1977	Template:Sortname	Missing Persons
1978	Template:Sortname	Life in the English Country House
1979	Template:Sortname	Tenebrae
1980	Template:Sortname	Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
1981	Template:Sortname	Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among the Lions
1982	Template:Sortname	James Joyce
1983	Template:Sortname	Collected Poems
1984	Template:Sortname	Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919
1985	Template:Sortname	Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape,1849,1928
1986	Template:Sortname	C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist
1987	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1988	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1989	Template:Sortname	Federico Garcia Lorca
1990	Template:Sortname and Mirabel Cecil	Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly Maccarthy: A Biography
1991	Template:Sortname	Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
1992	Template:Sortname	Never Again: Britain, 1945-1951
1993	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1994	Template:Sortname	Curzon: Imperial Statesman
1995	Template:Sortname	Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
1996	Template:Sortname	Thomas Cranmer: A Life
1997	Template:Sortname	Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money
1998	Template:Sortname	Coleridge: Darker Reflections
1999	Template:Sortname	King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
2000	Template:Sortname	John Maynard Keynes
2001	Template:Sortname	Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2002	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003	Template:Sortname	Gulag: A History	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2004	Template:Sortname	Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2005	Template:Sortname	Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2006	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2007	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
2008	Template:Sortname and Martin J. Sherwin	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2009	Template:Sortname	Trotsky: A Biography	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2010	Template:Sortname	How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2011	Template:Sortname	Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2012	Template:Sortname	Strindberg: A Life	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2013	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2014	Template:Sortname	Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory
2015	Template:Sortname	Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2016	Template:Sortname	Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2017	Template:Sortname	Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2018	Template:Sortname	A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles De Gaulle	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2019	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2020	Template:Sortname	Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Empire	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2021	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2022	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023	Template:Sortname	France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024	Template:Sortname	Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• List of history awards
• Prizes named after people

External links

• The Duff Cooper Prize