Samuel Johnson Prize
The Samuel Johnson Prize is one of the wrold's most pretigious awards for non-fiction writing. It was founded in 1999 based on an anonymous donation and is managed by BBC 4. Each winner receives 30000 pounds and each finalist 2500 pounds.Past Winners:
Winner:
- T.J. Binyon Pushkin
- Orlando Figes, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
- Aminatta Forna, The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent
- Olivia Judson, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
- Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self *Edgar Vincent, Nelson: Love and Fame
Winner
- Margaret Macmillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
- Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath
- William Fiennes, The Snow Geese
- Richard Hamblyn, The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
- Roy Jenkins, Churchill: a Biography
- Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia
Winner
- Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich
- Richard Fortey, Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
- Catherine Merridale, Night of Stone
- Graham Robb, Rimbaud
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin
- Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
Winner
- David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
- Tony Hawks, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
- Brenda Maddox, Yeats's Ghosts
- Matt Ridley, Genome
- William Shawcross, Deliver Us From Evil
- Francis Wheen, Karl Marx
Winner
- Samuel Johnson Prize: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
- Ian Kershaw, Hitler
- Ann Wroe, Pilate
- John Diamond, C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
- David Landes, Wealth and Poverty of Nations
