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Baillie Gifford Prize
Awarded forNon-fiction writing
Date1999 (1999)
CountryUnited Kingdom
Formerly calledSamuel Johnson Prize
Reward(s)£50,000
Currently held by Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
Websitethebailliegiffordprize.co.uk

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award. With its motto "All the best stories are true", the prize covers current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. The competition is open to authors of any nationality whose work is published in the UK in English. The longlist, shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges, which changes every year. Formerly named after English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, the award was renamed in 2015 after Baillie Gifford, an investment management firm and the primary sponsor. Since 2016, the annual dinner and awards ceremony has been sponsored by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

The prize is governed by the Board of Directors of The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction Limited, a not-for-profit company. Since 2018, the Chair of the Board has been Sir Peter Bazalgette, who succeeded Stuart Proffitt, the chair since 1999. In 2015, Toby Mundy was appointed as the Prize's first director.

History

Prior to the establishment of the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain's premier literary award for non-fiction was the NCR Book Award, which had been established in 1987. In 1997, the NCR Award experienced a scandal when it was revealed the judges, many of them chosen for their popularity rather than literary qualities, had used "ghost readers" and were not expected to read the books they voted on. Because of this and other problems the award ceased operations. In response, one of the previous winners of NCR Award, the historian Peter Hennessy, approached Stuart Proffitt, a Publishing Director at Penguin Press, with the idea for a new award. An anonymous benefactor was found who funded the establishment of the Prize, which was named after the English 18th-century author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

From its inception until 2001, the prize was independently financed by the founding benefactor. In 2002, it was taken over by the BBC and re-named the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize and managed by BBC Four. In 2009, the name was amended to the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and managed by BBC Two. The new name reflected the BBC's commitment to broadcasting coverage of the Prize on the BBC2 programme, The Culture Show. In 2016, the name was changed to the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, after its new primary sponsor, the Edinburgh-based investment management company Baillie Gifford.

Prior to the 2009 name change, the winner received £30,000, and each finalist received £2,500. After 2009, the award was £20,000 for the winner, and each finalist received £1,000. In February 2012, the steering committee for the prize announced that a new sponsor had been found for the prize, an anonymous philanthropist, enabling the prize money to be raised to £25,000. In 2015, funding for the prize was arranged by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, while the organisers sought new primary sponsors from 2016 onwards.

In 2016, under new sponsors Baillie Gifford, the prize money was restored to £30,000 for the winner.

In 2019, following the announcement that Baillie Gifford will sponsor the award until at least 2026, the prize money was increased to £50,000.

It is widely recognised as the UK's most prestigious award for non-fiction authors.

Winners and shortlists

1990s

1990s Baillie Gifford Prize winners and shortlists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1999 Antony Beevor Stalingrad Won
Ian Kershaw Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris (about Adolf Hitler) Shortlisted
Ann Wroe Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man (about Pontius Pilate) Shortlisted
John Diamond C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too Shortlisted
Richard Holmes Coleridge: Darker Reflections (about Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Shortlisted
David Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations Shortlisted

2000s

2000s Baillie Gifford Prize winners and shortlists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2000 David Cairns Berlioz: Volume 2 Won
Tony Hawks Playing the Moldovans at Tennis Shortlisted
Brenda Maddox Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats (about W. B. Yeats) Shortlisted
Matt Ridley Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Shortlisted
William Shawcross Deliver us from Evil: Warlords, Peacekeepers and a World of Endless Conflict Shortlisted
Francis Wheen Karl Marx (about Karl Marx) Shortlisted
2001 Michael Burleigh The Third Reich: A New History Won
Richard Fortey Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution Shortlisted
Catherine Merridale Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia Shortlisted
Graham Robb Rimbaud (about Arthur Rimbaud) Shortlisted
Simon Sebag Montefiore Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin (about Grigory Potemkin) Shortlisted
Robert Skidelsky John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946 (about John Maynard Keynes) Shortlisted
2002 Margaret MacMillan Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War Won
Eamon Duffy The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village Shortlisted
William Fiennes The Snow Geese Shortlisted
Richard Hamblyn The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies Shortlisted
Roy Jenkins Churchill: a Biography (about Winston Churchill) Shortlisted
Brendan Simms Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia Shortlisted
2003 T. J. Binyon Pushkin: A Biography Won
Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia Shortlisted
Aminatta Forna The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent Shortlisted
Olivia Judson Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex Shortlisted
Claire Tomalin Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (about Samuel Pepys) Shortlisted
Edgar Vincent Nelson: Love and Fame (about Lord Nelson) Shortlisted
2004 Anna Funder Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall Won
Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps Shortlisted
Jonathan Bate John Clare: A Biography Shortlisted
Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything Shortlisted
Aidan Hartley The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War Shortlisted
Tom Holland Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic Shortlisted
2005 Jonathan Coe Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson Won
Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards Shortlisted
Suketu Mehta Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Shortlisted
Orhan Pamuk Istanbul: Memories and the City Shortlisted
Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909–1954 (about Henri Matisse) Shortlisted
Sarah Wise The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London Shortlisted
2006 James S. Shapiro 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare Won
Alan Bennett Untold Stories Shortlisted
Jerry Brotton The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection Shortlisted
Carmen Callil Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family & Fatherland Shortlisted
Tony Judt Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Shortlisted
Tom Reiss The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West Shortlisted
2007 Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone Won
Ian Buruma Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance Shortlisted
Peter Hennessy Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties Shortlisted
Georgina Howell Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell (about Gertrude Bell) Shortlisted
Dominic Streatfeild Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control Shortlisted
Adrian Tinniswood The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England Shortlisted
2008 Kate Summerscale The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House Won
Tim Butcher Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart Shortlisted
Mark Cocker Crow Country Shortlisted
Orlando Figes The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia Shortlisted
Patrick French The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul Shortlisted
Alex Ross The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Shortlisted
2009 Philip Hoare Leviathan or, The Whale Won
Liaquat Ahamed Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Shortlisted
Ben Goldacre Bad Science Shortlisted
David Grann The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Shortlisted
Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Shortlisted
Manjit Kumar Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality Shortlisted

2010s

2010s Baillie Gifford Prize winner and shortlist
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2010 Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Won
Alex Bellos Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics Shortlisted
Luke Jennings Blood Knots: On Fathers, Friendship and Fishing Shortlisted
Andrew Ross Sorkin Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves Shortlisted
Jenny Uglow A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration Shortlisted
Richard Wrangham Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Shortlisted
2011 Frank Dikötter Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 Won
Andrew Graham-Dixon Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (biography of Caravaggio) Shortlisted
Maya Jasanoff Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World Shortlisted
Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Shortlisted
Jonathan Steinberg Bismarck: A Life (biography of Otto von Bismarck) Shortlisted
John Stubbs Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War Shortlisted
2012 Wade Davis Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Won
Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum Shortlisted
Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Shortlisted
Steven Pinker The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity Shortlisted
Paul Preston The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain Shortlisted
Sue Prideaux Strindberg: A Life Shortlisted
2013 Lucy Hughes-Hallett The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War Won
David Crane Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision led to the Creation of WWI's World Graves Shortlisted
William Dalrymple Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan Shortlisted
Dave Goulson A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees Shortlisted
Charlotte Higgins Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain Shortlisted
Charles Moore Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography Shortlisted
2014 Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk Won
John Campbell Roy Jenkins: A Biography Shortlisted
Marion Coutts The Iceberg: A Memoir Shortlisted
Greg Grandin The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Shortlisted
Alison Light Common People: The History of an English Family Shortlisted
Caroline Moorehead Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France Shortlisted
2015 Steve Silberman NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently Won
Jonathan Bate Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life Shortlisted
Robert Macfarlane Landmarks Shortlisted
Laurence Scott The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World Shortlisted
Emma Sky The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq Shortlisted
Samanth Subramanian This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War Shortlisted
2016 Philippe Sands East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Won
Svetlana Alexievich Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Shortlisted
Margo Jefferson Negroland: A Memoir Shortlisted
Hisham Matar The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between Shortlisted
2017 David France How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS Won
Christopher de Bellaigue The Islamic Enlightenment The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason Shortlisted
Kapka Kassabova Border: A Journey to The Edge of Europe Shortlisted
Daniel Mendelsohn An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and An Epic Shortlisted
Mark O'Connell To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Shortlisted
Simon Schama Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900 Shortlisted
2018 Serhii Plokhy Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy Won
Hannah Fry Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine Shortlisted
Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Shortlisted
Thomas Page McBee Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man Shortlisted
Stephen R. Platt Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age Shortlisted
Carl Zimmer She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity Shortlisted
2019 Hallie Rubenhold The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Won
Casey Cep Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Shortlisted
Laura Cumming On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons Shortlisted
William Feaver The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth Shortlisted
Julia Lovell Maoism: A Global History Shortlisted
Azadeh Moaveni Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS Shortlisted

2020s

2020s Baillie Gifford Prize winner and shortlist
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2020 Craig Brown One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time Won
Matthew Cobb The Idea of the Brain: A History Shortlisted
Sudhir Hazareesingh Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture Shortlisted
Christina Lamb Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women Shortlisted
Amy Stanley Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World Shortlisted
Kate Summerscale The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story Shortlisted
2021 Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Won
Cal Flyn Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape Shortlisted
Harald Jähner Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 Shortlisted
Kei Miller Things I Have Withheld Shortlisted
John Preston Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell Shortlisted
Lea Ypi Free: Coming of Age at the End of History Shortlisted
2022 Katherine Rundell Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (about John Donne) Won
Caroline Elkins Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire Shortlisted
Jonathan Freedland The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Shortlisted
Sally Hayden My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route Shortlisted
Anna Keay The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown Shortlisted
Polly Morland A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story Shortlisted
2023 John Vaillant Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World Won
Hannah Barnes Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children Shortlisted
Tania Branigan Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution, Shortlisted
Christopher Clark Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 Shortlisted
Jeremy Eichler Time’s Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and The Music of Remembrance Shortlisted
Jennifer Homans Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century Shortlisted

25th Anniversary Winner of Winners Award

In 2023, marking the 25th anniversary of the prize, a one-off 'Winner of Winners' Award was announced. The judging panel was chaired by Jason Cowley (New Statesman editor-in-chief) and included Shahidha Bari (academic, critic and broadcaster), Sarah Churchwell (journalist, author and academic), and Frances Wilson (biographer and critic).

Author Title Win Year Result Ref.
James S. Shapiro 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 2006 Won
Craig Brown One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time 2020 Shortlisted
Wade Davis Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest 2012 Shortlisted
Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 2010 Shortlisted
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 2021 Shortlisted
Margaret MacMillan Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War 2002 Shortlisted

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The 1999 judges were Cherie Booth, Orlando Figes, Kate Summerscale, James Naughtie.
  2. ^ The 2000 judges were Stephen Fry, Timothy Garton Ash, Susan Greenfield, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Nigella Lawson.
  3. ^ The 2001 judges were Niall Ferguson, Steve Jones, Annalena McAfee, Suzanna Taverne, Andrew Marr.
  4. ^ 2002 was the first year as BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize. The 2002 judges were Richard Fortey, Caroline Gascoigne, Bonnie Greer, Robert Harris, David Dimbleby.
  5. ^ The 2003 judges were Michael Portillo, Tim Radford, Andrew Roberts, Fiammetta Rocco, Rosie Boycott.
  6. ^ The 2004 judges were Aminatta Forna, Martha Kearney, Simon Singh, Francis Wheen, Michael Wood.
  7. ^ The 2005 judges were Marcus du Sautoy, Andrew Holgate, Maria Misra, John Simpson, Sue MacGregor.
  8. ^ The 2006 judges were Robert Winston, Sir Richard Eyre, Pankaj Mishra, Cristina Odone, Michael Prodger.
  9. ^ The 2007 judges were Helena Kennedy, Diana Athill, Jim Al-Khalili, Tristram Hunt, Mark Lawson.
  10. ^ The 2008 judges were Claire Armitstead, Daljit Nagra, Chris Rapley, Hannah Rothschild, Rosie Boycott.
  11. ^ 2009 was the first year as BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. The judges announced the winner of the prize at an awards event at King's Place, London on 30 June. The monetary prize for 2009 was £20,000 for the winner, and each finalist receives £1000. The 2009 judges were Mark Lythgoe, Tim Marlow, Munira Mirza, Sarah Sands, Jacob Weisberg.
  12. ^ The 2010 judges were Evan Davis, Jan Dalley, Daniel Finkelstein, Roger Highfield, Stella Tillyard.
  13. ^ The 2011 judges were David Goodhart, Sam Leith, Ben Macintyre, Brenda Maddox, Amanda Vickery.
  14. ^ The 2012 judges were David Willetts, Patrick French, Paul Laity, Bronwen Maddox, Raymond Tallis. The 2012 monetary prize was £20,000 for the winner.
  15. ^ The 2013 judging panel was chaired by cosmologist and Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, accompanied by classical historian Mary Beard, director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti, historian Peter Hennessy and writer and critic James McConnachie.
  16. ^ The 2014 judging panel was chaired by author and historian Claire Tomalin, accompanied by Alan Johnson MP, Financial Times Books Editor Lorien Kite, philosopher Ray Monk and historian Ruth Scurr.
  17. ^ The 2015 judging panel was chaired by Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist Anne Applebaum, together with editor of Intelligent Life Emma Duncan, editor of New Scientist Sumit Paul-Choudhury, Director of China Centre at Oxford University Professor Rana Mitter and former Controller of Film and Drama and Head of Film 4 Tessa Ross.
  18. ^ 2016 was the first year as Baillie Gifford Prize. The 2016 judging panel was chaired by former BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders, together with Philip Ball, science writer and author; Jonathan Derbyshire, executive comment editor of the Financial Times; Dr Sophie Ratcliffe, scholar, writer and literary critic and Rohan Silva, co-founder of the social enterprise Second Home.
  19. ^ The 2017 judging panel was chaired by chaired by author and Chairman of ITV Sir Peter Bazalgette, together with Anjana Ahuja, science writer; Ian Bostridge, tenor and writer; Professor Sarah Churchwell, academic and writer and Razia Iqbal, journalist and broadcaster.
  20. ^ The 2018 judging panel was chaired by The Economist's culture correspondent Fiammetta Rocco, with Stephen Bush, journalist and political commentator; Susan Brigden, historian; Anne-Marie Imafidon, mathematician and campaigner; and Nigel Warburton, philosopher.
  21. ^ The 2019 judging panel was chaired by Times Literary Supplement editor Stig Abell, with Myriam François, TV producer and writer; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, professor of English Literature; Frances Wilson, critic and biographer; Petina Gappah, writer and lawyer and Alexander Van Tulleken, doctor and TV presenter.
  22. ^ The 2020 judging panel consisted of Martha Kearney (BBC Radio presenter), Shahidha Bari (writer and radio presenter), Simon Ings (writer and editor), Leo Robson (writer), Max Strasser (editor) and Bee Wilson (journalist and writer).
  23. ^ The 2021 judging panel consisted of Andrew Holgate, Sara Collins, Helen Czerski, Kathryn Hughes, Johny Pitts and Dominic Sandbrook.
  24. ^ The 2022 judges were Caroline Sanderson (chair), Laura Spinney, Rachel Cooke, Clive Myrie, Samanth Subramanian and Georgina Godwin
  25. ^ The 2022 judges were Arifa Akbar, Andrew Haldane, Tanjil Rashid, Ruth Scurr, and Frederick Studemann (chair)

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