Hughes-Hallet wins Samuel Johnson Prize
In the UK, author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the £20,000 (A$33,802) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction for The Pike (Fourth Estate), her biography of the controversial Italian artist and nationalist...
Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 shortlist announced
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Empires of the Dead (David Crane, William Collins), The Return...
Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 longlist announced
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. The longlisted titles are: Small Wars, Far Away Places (Michael Burleigh, Macmillan) Empires of...
Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 longlist announced
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. The longlisted titles are: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo, Scribe) One on One...
Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction longlist announced
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. To view the longlisted titles, see the Bookseller+Publisher website here. The winner of this...
‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City ‘ wins Samuel Johnson Prize
Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Bloomsbury), an account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, has been named the 2007 winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize...