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


=== 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


=== 2001 ===


==== Vinner ====
Michael Burleigh for The Third Reich


==== Nominerte ====
Richard Fortey for Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
Catherine Merridale for Night of Stone
Graham Robb for Rimbaud
Simon Sebag Montefiore for Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin
Robert Skidelsky for John Maynard Keynes


=== 2000 ===


==== Vinner ====
David Cairns for Berlioz: Volume 2


==== Nominerte ====
Tony Hawks for Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
Brenda Maddox for Yeats's Ghosts
Matt Ridley for Genome
William Shawcross for Deliver Us From Evil
Francis Wheen for Karl Marx


=== 1999 ===


==== Vinner ====
Antony Beevor for Stalingrad


==== Nominerte ====
Ian Kershaw for Hitler
Ann Wroe for Pilate
John Diamond for C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
Richard Holmes for Coleridge: Darker Reflections
David Landes for The Wealth and Poverty of Nations


== Referanser ==


== Eksterne lenker ==
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/samueljohnson/ Arkivert 22. august 2006 hos Wayback Machine.