- Source: Elizabeth Longford Prize
The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography was established in 2003 in memory of Elizabeth Longford (1906-2002), the British author, biographer and historian. The £5,000 prize is awarded annually for a historical biography published in the preceding year.
The Elizabeth Longford Prize is sponsored by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros and administered by the Society of Authors.
Winners
= 2020s
=2022
Winner: Andrew Roberts for George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch (Allen Lane)
Shortlist:
Timothy Brennan for Places of Mind, A Life of Edward Said (Bloomsbury)
Helen Carr for The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster (Oneworld Publications)
Jonathan Petropoulos for Göring's Man in Paris: The Story of A Nazi Art Plunderer and His World (Yale University Press)
Jane Ridley for George V: Never a Dull Moment (Chatto & Windus)
2021
Winner: Fredrik Logevall for JFK: Vol 1 (Penguin Books)
Shortlist:
Sudhir Hazareesingh for Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Allen King)
Sarah LeFanu for Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War (Hurst)
Samanth Subramanian for A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S Haldane (Atlantic)
2020
Winner: D W. Hayton for Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier
Shortlist:
Andrew S. Curran for Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
Richard J. Evans for Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
Oliver Soden for Michael Tippett: The Biography
A. N. Wilson for Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
= 2010s
=2019
Winner: Julian Jackson for A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Shortlist:
Diarmaid MacCulloch for Thomas Cromwell: A Life
Andrew Roberts for Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Jeffrey C. Stewart for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
2018
Giles Tremlett for Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
2017
John Bew for Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
2016
Andrew Gailey for The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
2015
Ben Macintyre for A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
2014
Charles Moore for Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography. Volume 1
2013
Anne Somerset for Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
2012
Frances Wilson for How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
2011
Philip Ziegler for Edward Heath (bio of Edward Heath)
2010
Tristram Hunt for The Frock-Coated Communist - The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
= 2000s
=2009
Mark Bostridge for Florence Nightingale. The Woman and Her Legend
2008
Rosemary Hill for God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
2007
Jessie Childs for Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
2006
Charles Williams for Petain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History
2005
Ian Kershaw for Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War'
2004
Katie Whitaker for Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic
2003
David Gilmour for The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
References
External links
Elizabeth Longford Prize at the Society of Authors
Elizabeth Longford Prize at lovethebook
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Winners at Goodreads
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Sir David Gilmour, 4th Baronet
- Cate Blanchett
- Elizabeth Longford Prize
- Elizabeth Longford
- Lady Anne Somerset
- Helen H. Carr
- David Gilmour (historian)
- Erica Benner
- Fredrik Logevall
- Giles Tremlett
- Jackie Wullschläger
- Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
