Baillie Gifford Prize

Baillie Gifford Prize tidligere Samuel Johnson Prize er en litteraturpris for sakprosa. Den ble innstiftet i 1999 gjennom en anonym donasjon, og administreres av BBC. Hver vinner mottar 30 000 britiske pund og hver finalist 2 500 britiske pund. Prisen er oppkalt etter Samuel Johnson.

Vinnere

2016: Philippe Sands for East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity^[1]

2012

Vinner

Wade Davis for Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

Nominerte

Katherine Boo for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
Robert Macfarlane for The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Steven Pinker for The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Paul Preston for The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Sue Prideaux for Strindberg: A Life

2011

Vinner

Frank Dikötter for Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962

Nominerte

Andrew Graham-Dixon for Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane
Maya Jasanoff for Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Matt Ridley for The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Jonathan Steinberg for Bismarck: A Life
John Stubbs for Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

2010

Vinner

Barbara Demick for Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Nominerte

Alex Bellos for Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics
Luke Jennings for Blood Knots: On Fathers, Friendship and Fishing
Andrew Ross Sorkin for Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves
Jenny Uglow for A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
Richard Wrangham for Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

2009

Vinner

Philip Hoare for Leviathan or, The Whale

Nominerte

Liaquat Ahamed for Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Ben Goldacre for Bad Science
David Grann for The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Richard Holmes for The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Manjit Kumar for Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality

2008

Vinner

Kate Summerscale for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House

Nominerte

Tim Butcher for Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Mark Cocker for Crow Country
Orlando Figes for The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
Patrick French for The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul'
Alex Ross for The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

2007

Vinner

Rajiv Chandrasekaran for Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

Nominerte

Ian Buruma for Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
Peter Hennessey for Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties
Georgina Howell for Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell
Dominic Streatfeild for Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
Adrian Tinniswood for The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England

2006

Vinner

James S. Shapiro for 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Nominerte

Alan Bennett for Untold Stories
Jerry Brotton for The Sale of the Late King's Goods
Carmen Callil for Bad Faith
Tony Judt for Post War
Tom Reiss for The Orientalist

2005

Vinner

Jonathan Coe for Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson

Nominerte

Alexander Masters for Stuart: A Life Backwards
Suketu Mehta for Maximum City
Orhan Pamuk for Istanbul
Hilary Spurling for Matisse the Master
Sarah Wise for The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London

2004

Vinner

Anna Funder for Stasiland

Nominerte

Anne Applebaum for Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
Jonathan Bate for John Clare: A Biography
Bill Bryson for A Short History of Nearly Everything
Aidan Hartley for The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
Tom Holland for Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

2003

Vinner

T.J. Binyon for Pushkin

Nominerte

Orlando Figes for Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Aminatta Forna for The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent
Olivia Judson for Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
Claire Tomalin for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Edgar Vincent for Nelson: Love and Fame

2002

Vinner

Margaret MacMillan for Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War

Nominerte

Eamon Duffy for The Voices of Morebath
William Fiennes for The Snow Geese
Richard Hamblyn for The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
Roy Jenkins for Churchill: a Biography
Brendan Simms for Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia