Duff Cooper Prize
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A £5,000 annual prize for non-fiction, celebrating imaginative insight, compelling narrative, scholarship & good writing since 1956. Next awarded 2 March 26.
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Calling all UK publishers of great non-fiction 📚. Tell our judges about the best books you're bringing out this year. Nominations for the 70th #duffcooperprize 🎉 now open until 1 June 2025. Details here: duffcooperprize.org/about/how-to...
Calling all UK publishers of great non-fiction 📚. Tell our judges about the best books you're bringing out this year. Nominations for the 70th #duffcooperprize 🎉 now open until 1 June 2025. Details here: duffcooperprize.org/about/how-to...
May 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Calling all UK publishers of great non-fiction 📚. Tell our judges about the best books you're bringing out this year. Nominations for the 70th #duffcooperprize 🎉 now open until 1 June 2025. Details here: duffcooperprize.org/about/how-to...
“‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light”
Sue Prideaux discusses her Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize-winning biography Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin in today’s @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Sue Prideaux discusses her Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize-winning biography Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin in today’s @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light
He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist...
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light”
Sue Prideaux discusses her Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize-winning biography Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin in today’s @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Sue Prideaux discusses her Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize-winning biography Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin in today’s @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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With us in the Cotswolds in May Sue Prideaux winner 2025 @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social
Buy book @borzoibookshop.bsky.social
Book talk online
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Buy book @borzoibookshop.bsky.social
Book talk online
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
March 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
With us in the Cotswolds in May Sue Prideaux winner 2025 @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social
Buy book @borzoibookshop.bsky.social
Book talk online
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Buy book @borzoibookshop.bsky.social
Book talk online
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
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Both Sue Prideaux WILD THING winner @duffcooperprize.bsky.social and (see @fivebooks.com below) Minoo Dinshaw prize judge & author of FRIENDS IN YOUTH #history The English Civil War will be with us in May
Book tickets on line
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Book tickets on line
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
NEWS: Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux, a biography of French painter Paul Gauguin, wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Here's our interview with prize judge Minoo Dinshaw about this year's fab shortlist:
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize
It's a nonfiction book prize that values "style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality," says Minoo Dinshaw, author of Friends in Youth and one of this year's…
fivebooks.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Both Sue Prideaux WILD THING winner @duffcooperprize.bsky.social and (see @fivebooks.com below) Minoo Dinshaw prize judge & author of FRIENDS IN YOUTH #history The English Civil War will be with us in May
Book tickets on line
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Book tickets on line
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
‘He’s showing the two realities simultaneously, the mental reality and the physical reality and that’s just extraordinary.’
Listen to The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 winner Sue Prideaux interviewed by judge David Horspool on the @thetls.bsky.social podcast.
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
Listen to The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 winner Sue Prideaux interviewed by judge David Horspool on the @thetls.bsky.social podcast.
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
The TLS Podcast: March 7, 2025
Toby Lichtig chats to Sam Leith about formative literature at Jewish Book Week and David Horspool meets Sue Prideaux, winner of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
www.the-tls.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
‘He’s showing the two realities simultaneously, the mental reality and the physical reality and that’s just extraordinary.’
Listen to The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 winner Sue Prideaux interviewed by judge David Horspool on the @thetls.bsky.social podcast.
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
Listen to The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 winner Sue Prideaux interviewed by judge David Horspool on the @thetls.bsky.social podcast.
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
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NEWS: Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux, a biography of French painter Paul Gauguin, wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Here's our interview with prize judge Minoo Dinshaw about this year's fab shortlist:
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize
It's a nonfiction book prize that values "style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality," says Minoo Dinshaw, author of Friends in Youth and one of this year's…
fivebooks.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
NEWS: Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux, a biography of French painter Paul Gauguin, wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Here's our interview with prize judge Minoo Dinshaw about this year's fab shortlist:
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Today's top story:
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (Faber) has won the Duff Cooper Prize
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (Faber) has won the Duff Cooper Prize
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March 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Today's top story:
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (Faber) has won the Duff Cooper Prize
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (Faber) has won the Duff Cooper Prize
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Many congratulations to Sue Prideaux for winning the @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for her biography of Paul Gauguin.
And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.
And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.
March 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Many congratulations to Sue Prideaux for winning the @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for her biography of Paul Gauguin.
And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.
And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.
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Reading this at the moment and loving it. Well deserved.
Congratulations to Sue Prideaux winner of The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 for Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social. 🍾
March 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reading this at the moment and loving it. Well deserved.
Congratulations to Sue Prideaux winner of The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 for Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social. 🍾
March 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Congratulations to Sue Prideaux winner of The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 for Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social. 🍾
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Which was the best nonfiction/history book of 2024? The judges of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize (@duffcooperprize.bsky.social) will announce their winner tonight:
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize
It's a nonfiction book prize that values "style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality," says Minoo Dinshaw, author of Friends in Youth and one of this year's…
fivebooks.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Which was the best nonfiction/history book of 2024? The judges of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize (@duffcooperprize.bsky.social) will announce their winner tonight:
We’ve spent six weeks celebrating the best non-fiction books from the past year. On Monday night we will toast them all and learn the winner of The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025. (@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social)
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March 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We’ve spent six weeks celebrating the best non-fiction books from the past year. On Monday night we will toast them all and learn the winner of The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025. (@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social)
duffcooperprize.org
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To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’ve profiled a shortlisted book. In our final week, discover Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor (The Bodley Head) @vintagebooks.bsky.social 🧵
February 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’ve profiled a shortlisted book. In our final week, discover Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor (The Bodley Head) @vintagebooks.bsky.social 🧵
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a shortlisted book. This week we dive into Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (@faberbooks.bsky.social). 🧵
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a shortlisted book. This week we dive into Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (@faberbooks.bsky.social). 🧵
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
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Shortlisted for the @duffcooperprize.bsky.social
A book of the year in @thetls.bsky.social, @economist.com & @bloomberg.com
Described as “marvellous” @theguardian.com, “beautifully written” @historyextra.bsky.social & “everything that popular history should be” (Lit Rev) …
And now in paperback!
A book of the year in @thetls.bsky.social, @economist.com & @bloomberg.com
Described as “marvellous” @theguardian.com, “beautifully written” @historyextra.bsky.social & “everything that popular history should be” (Lit Rev) …
And now in paperback!
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Shortlisted for the @duffcooperprize.bsky.social
A book of the year in @thetls.bsky.social, @economist.com & @bloomberg.com
Described as “marvellous” @theguardian.com, “beautifully written” @historyextra.bsky.social & “everything that popular history should be” (Lit Rev) …
And now in paperback!
A book of the year in @thetls.bsky.social, @economist.com & @bloomberg.com
Described as “marvellous” @theguardian.com, “beautifully written” @historyextra.bsky.social & “everything that popular history should be” (Lit Rev) …
And now in paperback!
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NEW: "We want style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality" Minoo Dinshaw, one of the judges, on this year's Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize shortlist:
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize
It's a nonfiction book prize that values "style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality," says Minoo Dinshaw, author of Friends in Youth and one of this year's…
fivebooks.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
NEW: "We want style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality" Minoo Dinshaw, one of the judges, on this year's Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize shortlist:
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Congratulations @faberbooks.bsky.social WILD THING by Sue Prideaux shortlisted for 2025 @duffcooperprize.bsky.social We are so looking forward to Sue's event with us in May
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
February 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Congratulations @faberbooks.bsky.social WILD THING by Sue Prideaux shortlisted for 2025 @duffcooperprize.bsky.social We are so looking forward to Sue's event with us in May
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re raising a glass to THE SCAPEGOAT: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (@4thestatebooks.bsky.social) 🧵
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re raising a glass to THE SCAPEGOAT: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (@4thestatebooks.bsky.social) 🧵
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
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#Art lovers tickets already selling fast for Sue Prideaux's presentation of WILD THING @faberbooks.bsky.social
( @duffcooperprize.bsky.social shortlist )
Book now for May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
( @duffcooperprize.bsky.social shortlist )
Book now for May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
February 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
#Art lovers tickets already selling fast for Sue Prideaux's presentation of WILD THING @faberbooks.bsky.social
( @duffcooperprize.bsky.social shortlist )
Book now for May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
( @duffcooperprize.bsky.social shortlist )
Book now for May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
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Our Warden, Miles Young, comments on one of the shortlisted books for this year's Duff Cooper Prize. Six excellent books for you to be reading when you're tucked up away from the cold ❄️
'A brilliant piece of scholarship, applying for the first time a genuinely historical frame to same sex behaviour in the past. It is forensic, but utterly engrossing.'
@DuffCooperPrize judge, Miles Young, on Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe. @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
@DuffCooperPrize judge, Miles Young, on Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe. @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Our Warden, Miles Young, comments on one of the shortlisted books for this year's Duff Cooper Prize. Six excellent books for you to be reading when you're tucked up away from the cold ❄️
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations 1400 – 1750 by Noel Malcolm (Oxford University Press). 🧵
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations 1400 – 1750 by Noel Malcolm (Oxford University Press). 🧵
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
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Congratulations 🥂 from www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
N Cotswolds to Sue Prideaux WILD THING @faberbooks.bsky.social @duffcooperprize.bsky.social
N Cotswolds to Sue Prideaux WILD THING @faberbooks.bsky.social @duffcooperprize.bsky.social
Congratulations!
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux (Faber @faberbooks.bsky.social)
is shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux (Faber @faberbooks.bsky.social)
is shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025
February 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Congratulations 🥂 from www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
N Cotswolds to Sue Prideaux WILD THING @faberbooks.bsky.social @duffcooperprize.bsky.social
N Cotswolds to Sue Prideaux WILD THING @faberbooks.bsky.social @duffcooperprize.bsky.social
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🐈 wondering whether all #DuffCooperPrize shortlisted books have treats between the pages.
January 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🐈 wondering whether all #DuffCooperPrize shortlisted books have treats between the pages.
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes (@4thestatebooks.bsky.social). 🧵
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. This week we’re celebrating Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes (@4thestatebooks.bsky.social). 🧵
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. We’re kicking off with, Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy by Mark Gilbert published (Allen Lane).
January 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
To celebrate The Pol Roger Duff Cooper 2025, each Friday we’re profiling a different shortlisted book. We’re kicking off with, Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy by Mark Gilbert published (Allen Lane).