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Baillie Gifford Prize

Non-fiction writing award

Award

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.^[1] 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

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Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Winners

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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Steve Silberman

4.29 avg rating — 16,539 ratings

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2015)H is for Hawk
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Helen Macdonald

3.74 avg rating — 77,466 ratings

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2014)Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett(Goodreads Author)

4.15 avg rating — 653 ratings

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2013)Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
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Wade Davis

4.27 avg rating — 4,552 ratings

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2012)Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
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Frank Dikötter

4.07 avg rating — 4,788 ratings

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2011)Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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Barbara Demick(Goodreads Author)

4.45 avg rating — 92,785 ratings

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2010)The Whale: In

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The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014 shortlist

The six titles on the shortlist for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, celebrating the best in non-fiction writing, are announced today, Thursday 9 October.

The six titles in contention for the 2014 prize are:

John Campbell, Roy Jenkins, Jonathan Cape
Marion Coutts, The Iceberg: A Memoir, Atlantic
Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity, Oneworld
Alison Light, Common People, Fig Tree
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk, Jonathan Cape
Caroline Moorehead, Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France, Chatto & Windus

The shortlist combines biography, memoir and history with subjects as diverse as hawks, family history and dying. It includes a biography of politician Roy Jenkins, a widow's searing and humane account of her husband's loss of speech and death, the story of a slave rebellion, an exploration of family through generations of obscurity and poverty, a woman’s story of training a goshawk, and the story of Jewish children hidden in Vichy France.

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