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

Eksterne lenker

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