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 Century2007
Vinner
 Rajiv Chandrasekaran for Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green ZoneNominerte
Ian Buruma for Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of TolerancePeter Hennessey for Having it so Good: Britain in the FiftiesGeorgina Howell for Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude BellDominic Streatfeild for Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind ControlAdrian 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 CampsJonathan Bate for John Clare: A BiographyBill Bryson for A Short History of Nearly EverythingAidan Hartley for The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and WarTom 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 RussiaAminatta Forna for The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a ContinentOlivia 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 MorebathWilliam Fiennes for The Snow GeeseRichard Hamblyn for The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the SkiesRoy Jenkins for Churchill: a BiographyBrendan 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 StoneGraham Robb for RimbaudSimon Sebag Montefiore for Prince of Princes: The Life of PotemkinRobert 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 GhostsMatt Ridley for GenomeWilliam Shawcross for Deliver Us From EvilFrancis Wheen for Karl Marx 1999 
 Vinner 
Antony Beevor for Stalingrad Nominerte 
Ian Kershaw for HitlerAnn Wroe for PilateJohn Diamond for C: Because Cowards Get Cancer TooRichard Holmes for Coleridge: Darker ReflectionsDavid Landes for The Wealth and Poverty of Nations''

Referanser

Eksterne lenker 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/samueljohnson/ 

Litteraturpriser
Utmerkelser etablert i 1999
1999 i Storbritannia