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 (author)|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 (historian)| 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 (journalist)|John Diamond]] for *C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too*
*[[Richard Holmes (historian)|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/