Duff Cooper Prize Explained

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.
1956Gallipoli
1957Bitter Lemons
1958Collected Poems
1959
1960Collected Poems
1961Joseph Conrad
1962
1963[3] [4]
1964
1965Marcel Proust
1966[5]
1967[6]
1968New Poems
1969
1970Charles of Orleans: Prince & Poet
1971Discoveries of Bones and Stones
1972Virginia Woolf
1973Alexander the Great
1974Wilfred Owen
1975North
1976Mussolini's Roman Empire
1977Missing Persons
1978Life in the English Country House
1979Tenebrae
1980Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
1981Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among the Lions
1982James Joyce
1983Collected Poems
1984Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919
1985Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape,1849,1928
1986C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist
1987
1988
1989Federico Garcia Lorca
1990 and Mirabel CecilClever Hearts: Desmond and Molly Maccarthy: A Biography
1991Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
1992Never Again: Britain, 1945-1951
1993
1994Curzon: Imperial Statesman
1995Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
1996Thomas Cranmer: A Life
1997Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money
1998Coleridge: Darker Reflections
1999King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
2000John Maynard Keynes
2001Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War[7]
2002[8]
2003[9]
2004Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950[10]
2005Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire[11]
2006[12]
2007
2008 and Martin J. SherwinAmerican Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer[13]
2009[14]
2010How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer[15]
2011Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist[16]
2012Strindberg: A Life[17] [18]
2013[19]
2014Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory
2015Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession[20] [21]
2016Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts[22] [23]
2017Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine[24] [25]
2018A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles De Gaulle[26]
2019[27] [28]
2020Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Empire[29] [30]
2021[31]
2022[32] [33]
2023France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain[34]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: London Evening Standard. Champagne days for winners of the Duff Cooper Prize. February 21, 2013. August 26, 2013. May 26, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200526213318/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/champagne-days-for-winners-of-the-duff-cooper-prize-8504983.html. live.
  2. Web site: 1956 - 2016 . 2023-03-12 . The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize . en-US . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312000358/https://duffcooperprize.org/1956-2016/ . live .
  3. Web site: 2016-06-14 . Obituary Notes: Aileen Ward; Steve Wolfe . 2023-03-12 . . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312023315/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2774 . live .
  4. News: 1963-12-12 . Woman Is First From U.S. To Win Duff Cooper Prize . en-US . . 2023-03-12 . 0362-4331 . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312160205/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/12/12/archives/woman-is-first-from-us-to-win-duff-cooper-prize.html . live .
  5. Web site: 2018-11-23 . Famous English author Nirad C Chaudhuri was the first Indian to receive this award . 2023-03-12 . . en . 2022-05-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220516170429/https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/famous-english-author-nirad-c-chaudhuri-was-the-first-indian-to-receive-this-award-1394864-2018-11-23 . live .
  6. Web site: J. A. Baker . 2023-03-12 . Little Toller Books . en-GB.
  7. Web site: 2019-04-25 . Margaret Olwen MacMillan . 2023-03-12 . . 2022-09-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220916054704/https://www.international.gc.ca/gac-amc/programs-programmes/od_skelton/margaret_olwen_macmillan_bio.aspx?lang=eng . live .
  8. Web site: Summer 2003 . Lutyens Biography Wins The Duff Cooper Prize . 2023-03-12 . The Lutyens Trust . en-GB . 2022-06-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220630230324/https://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-item/lutyens-biography-wins-the-duff-cooper-prize/ . live .
  9. Web site: Cowdrey . Katherine . 2018-05-11 . Applebaum wins Duff Cooper Prize for a second time . 2023-03-12 . The Bookseller . En . 2022-11-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221128065930/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/applebaum-wins-pol-roger-duff-cooper-prize-second-time-784531 . live .
  10. Web site: 2021-09-23 . British Philhellene Mark Mazower Granted Honorary Greek Citizenship . 2023-03-12 . Greek City Times . en-US . 2022-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221205001810/https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/09/23/british-philhellene-mark-mazower-granted-honorary-greek-citizenship/ . live .
  11. Web site: Maya Jasanoff . 2023-03-12 . . en . 2020-10-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201021174050/https://scholar.harvard.edu/mjasanoff/home . live .
  12. Web site: William Dalrymple . 2023-03-12 . . 2022-03-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220308032524/https://cdn.cfr.org/sites/default/files/pdf/william-dalrymple-bio.pdf . live .
  13. Web site: Kai Bird - Medill - Northwestern University . 2023-03-12 . . en . 2022-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221230094934/https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/about-us/awards/hall-of-achievement/kai-bird.html . live .
  14. Web site: 2010-03-16 . Hoover Fellow Robert Service Awarded Duff Cooper Prize . 2023-03-12 . . en . 2021-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211206110856/https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-fellow-robert-service-awarded-duff-cooper-prize . live .
  15. Web site: Spencer . Clare . 2011-03-08 . Sarah Bakewell wins 2011 Duff Cooper prize Creative Writing Tutors . 2023-03-12 . . en-US . 2021-06-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210615170921/https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/WritingTutors/?p=171 . live .
  16. Web site: Blackburn . David . 2012-03-01 . Dickens takes the Duff Cooper Prize . 2023-03-12 . The Spectator . en-US . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312160207/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dickens-takes-the-duff-cooper-prize/ . live .
  17. Web site: 2013-02-26 . Awards: Duff Cooper Prize; Bodley Medal . 2023-03-12 . . 2022-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220123234502/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1935 . live .
  18. Web site: 2013-02-21 . Champagne days for winners of the Duff Cooper Prize . 2023-03-12 . Evening Standard . en . 2020-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200526213318/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/champagne-days-for-winners-of-the-duff-cooper-prize-8504983.html . live .
  19. Web site: 2014-02-14 . Awards: Duff Cooper Winner; Stella Longlist . 2023-03-12 . . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312023318/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2187 . live .
  20. Web site: 2016-02-24 . Awards: L.A. Times Book Finalists; Duff Cooper Winner . 2023-03-12 . . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312023312/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2696 . live .
  21. Web site: Wright . Katy . 2016-02-23 . Bostridge wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize . 2023-03-12 . Rhinegold . en . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312160201/https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/24443-2/ . live .
  22. Web site: 2017-02-22 . Awards: Rilke for Poetry; Lukas, Lynton; Pol Roger Duff Cooper . 2023-03-12 . . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312023314/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2942 . live .
  23. Web site: The Duff Cooper Prize 2016 . 2023-03-12 . Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge . en . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312160206/https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/duff-cooper-prize-2016 . live .
  24. Web site: 2018-05-14 . Awards: International Dylan Thomas; Pol Roger Duff Cooper . 2023-03-12 . . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312023318/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3248 . live .
  25. Web site: 2018-05-11 . New College awards Duff Cooper prize to Red Famine writer . 2023-03-12 . Oxford Mail . en.
  26. Web site: 2019-02-21 . Queen Mary Professor awarded prestigious Duff Cooper Prize . 2023-03-12 . . en . 2022-08-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220816154218/https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2019/hss/queen-mary-professor-awarded-prestigious-duff-cooper-prize.html . live .
  27. Web site: 2020-04-02 . Awards: Astrid Lindgren, Duff Cooper, Republic of Consciousness Winners; Christian Book Finalists . 2023-03-12 . . 2023-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312023315/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3709 . live .
  28. News: 2020-04-01 . John Barton wins Duff Cooper Prize 2019 . The Times of India . 2023-03-12 . 0971-8257 . 2020-05-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200520205257/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/john-barton-wins-duff-cooper-prize-2019/articleshow/74932824.cms . live .
  29. Web site: 2021-02-05 . Awards: Andrew Carnegie Medal, Pol Roger Duff Cooper Winners . 2023-03-12 . . 2022-12-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221209151048/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3917 . live .
  30. Web site: Comerford . Ruth . 2021-02-01 . Herrin's Ravenna wins Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize . 2023-03-12 . The Bookseller . En . 2021-05-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210514154452/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/judith-herrin-wins-5k-pol-roger-duff-cooper-prize-1235348 . live .
  31. Web site: 2022-04-21 . Mark Mazower Awarded 2021 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize . 2023-03-12 . The Harriman Institute . en-US . 2022-12-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221223110527/https://harriman.columbia.edu/mark-mazower-awarded-2021-pol-roger-duff-cooper-prize/ . live .
  32. Web site: Brown . Lauren . 2023-03-06 . Anna Keay wins £5,000 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for The Restless Republic . 2023-03-12 . The Bookseller . En . 2023-03-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230311002404/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/anna-keay-wins-5000-pol-roger-duff-cooper-prize-for-the-restless-republic . live .
  33. Web site: Kan . Toni . 2023-03-07 . Anna Keay's "The Restless Republic" wins £5,000 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize . 2023-03-12 . . en-US . 2023-03-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230308063447/https://thelagosreview.ng/anna-keays-the-restless-republic-wins-5000-pol-roger-duff-cooper-prize/ . live .
  34. Web site: Bayley . Sian . 2024-03-04 . Julian Jackson wins £5k Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize . 2024-03-16 . The Bookseller.

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