Samuel Johnson Prize

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Samuel Johnson Prize er en litteraturpris for sakprosa. Den ble innstiftet i 1999 gjennom en anonym donasjon, og administreres av BBC. Hver vinner mottar 30 000 britiske pund og hver finalist 2 500 britiske pund. Prisen er oppkalt etter Samuel Johnson.

Innhold 1 Tidligere vinnere 1.1 2006 1.1.1 Vinner 1.1.2 Shortlist 1.2 2005 1.2.1 Vinner 1.2.2 Shortlist 1.3 2004 1.3.1 Vinner 1.3.2 Shortlist 1.4 2003 1.4.1 Vinner 1.4.2 Shortlist 1.5 2002 1.5.1 Vinner 1.5.2 Shortlist 1.6 2001 1.6.1 Vinner 1.6.2 Shortlist 1.7 2000 1.7.1 Vinner 1.7.2 Shortlist 1.8 1999 1.8.1 Vinner 1.8.2 Shortlist 2 Eksterne lenker

[rediger] Tidligere vinnere

[rediger] 2006

[rediger] Vinner

• James S. Shapiro 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

[rediger] Shortlist

• Alan Bennett Untold Stories
• Jerry Brotton The Sale of the Late King's Goods
• Carmen Callil Bad Faith
• Tony Judt Post War
• Tom Reiss The Orientalist

[rediger] 2005

[rediger] Vinner

• Jonathan Coe Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson

[rediger] Shortlist

• Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards
• Suketu Mehta Maximum City
• Orhan Pamuk Istanbul
• Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master
• Sarah Wise The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London

[rediger] 2004

[rediger] Vinner

• Anna Funder Stasiland

[rediger] Shortlist

• Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
• Jonathan Bate John Clare: A Biography
• Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Aidan Hartley The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
• Tom Holland Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

[rediger] 2003

[rediger] Vinner

• T.J. Binyon Pushkin

[rediger] Shortlist

• 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

[rediger] 2002

[rediger] Vinner

• Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War

[rediger] Shortlist

• 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

[rediger] 2001

[rediger] Vinner

• Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich

[rediger] Shortlist

• 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

[rediger] 2000

[rediger] Vinner

• David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2

[rediger] Shortlist

• 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

[rediger] 1999

[rediger] Vinner

• Antony Beevor, Stalingrad

[rediger] Shortlist

• Ian Kershaw, Hitler
• Ann Wroe, Pilate
• John Diamond, C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
• Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
• David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

[rediger] Eksterne lenker

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/samueljohnson/