The Duff Cooper Prize
Registered Charity 313572
 
 

List of Winners


 
  1956 Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli
1957 Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
1958 John Betjeman, Collected Poems
1959 Patrick Leigh, Fermor Mani
1960 Andrew Young, Collected Poems
1961 Jocelyn Baines, Joseph Conrad
1962 Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War
1963 Aileen Ward, John Keats
1964 Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince
1965 George Painter, Marcel Proust
1966 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Continent of Circe
1967 J.A.Baker, The Peregrine
1968 Roy Fuller, New Poems
1969 John Gross, The Man of Letters
1970 Enid McLeod, Charles of Orleans
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
1982 Richard Ellmann , James Joyce
1983 Peter Porter, Collected Poems
1984 Hilary Spurling, Ivy Compton-Burnett
1985 Ann Thwaite, Edmund Gosse
1986 Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee
1987 Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore
1988 Humphrey Carpenter, The Life of Ezra Pound
1989 Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca
1990 Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, Clever Hearts
1991 Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein
1992 Peter Hennessy, Never Again
1993 John Keegan, A History of Warfare
1994 David Gilmour, Curzon
1995 Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
1996 Diarmaid MacCulloch, Cranmer
1997 James Buchan, Frozen Desire
1998 Richard Holmes, Darker Reflections: Coleridge
1999 Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
2000 Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
2001 Margaret Macmillan, Peacemakers
2002 Jane Ridley, Edwin Lutyens: A Life
2003 Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
2004 Mark Mazower, Salonica: City of Ghosts

The Prize for 2005 will be awarded in February 2006.

 
 

 

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