Duff Cooper Prize
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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
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