Le prix Samuel-Johnson récompense des essais publiés en langue anglaise. Fondé en 1999 grâce à une donation anonyme, il est administré par la BBC. Chaque lauréat reçoit , et chaque finaliste reçoit .
Ce prix littéraire doit son nom à Samuel Johnson.
1999 Antony Beevor pour Stalingrad
Finalistes : Ian Kershaw, Hitler Ann Wroe, Pilate John Diamond, C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
2000 David Cairns pour Berlioz: Volume 2
Finalistes : Tony Hawks, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis Brenda Maddox, Yeats's Ghosts Matt Ridley, Genome William Shawcross, Deliver Us From Evil Francis Wheen, Karl Marx
2001 Michael Burleigh pour The Third Reich
Finalistes : Richard Fortey, Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution Catherine Merridale, Night of Stone Graham Robb, Rimbaud Simon Sebag Montefiore, Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
2002 Margaret MacMillan pour Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
Finalistes : Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath William Fiennes, author, The Snow Geese Richard Hamblyn, The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies Roy Jenkins, Churchill: a Biography Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia
2003 T.J. Binyon pour Pushkin
Finalistes : Orlando Figes, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia Aminatta Forna, The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent Olivia Judson, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Edgar Vincent, Nelson: Love and Fame
2004 Anna Funder pour Stasiland
Finalistes : Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps Jonathan Bate John Clare: A Biography Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything Aidan Hartley The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War Tom Holland Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
2005 Jonathan Coe pour Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson
Finalistes : Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards Suketu Mehta Maximum City Orhan Pamuk Istanbul Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master Sarah Wise The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
2006 James S. Shapiro pour 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Finalistes : Alan Bennett Untold Stories Jerry Brotton The Sale of the Late King's Goods Carmen Callil Bad Faith Tony Judt Post War Tom Reiss The Orientalist
2007 Rajiv Chandrasekaran pour Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Finalistes : Ian Buruma : Murder in Amsterdam Peter Hennessy : Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties Georgina Howell : Daughter of the Desert Dominic Streatfeild : Brainwash Adrian Tinniswood : The Verneys
2008 Kate Summerscale pour The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House
Finalistes : Tim Butcher: Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart Mark Cocker: Crow Country Orlando Figes: The Whisperers Patrick French: The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise
2009 Philip Hoare pour Leviathan
Finalistes : Liaquat Ahamed: Lords of Finance Ben Goldacre: Bad Science David Grann: The Lost City of Z Richard Holmes: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Manjit Kumar: Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
2011 Frank Dikötter pour La grande famine de Mao .
Finalistes : Andrew Graham-Dixon: Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane (biographie du Caravage) Maya Jasanoff: Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World Matt Ridley: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Jonathan Steinberg: Bismarck: A Life (biographie d'Otto von Bismarck) John Stubbs: Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
2012 Wade Davis pour Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Finalistes : Katherine Boo: Annawadi: Vie, mort et espoir dans un bidonville de Mumbai Robert Macfarlane: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity Paul Preston: The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain Sue Prideaux: Strindberg: A Life
2013 Lucy Hughes-Hallett pour The Pike, une biographie de l'écrivain italien Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Finalistes: David Crane, Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision led to the Creation of WWI's World Graves William Dalrymple, Le Retour d'un roi : La bataille d'Afghanistan Dave Goulson, A Sting in the Tale Charlotte Higgins, Under Another Sky Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography
2014 Helen Macdonald pour M pour Mabel (H is for Hawk), une description lyrique de la relation entre un humain, un oiseau de proie et le chagrin du deuil
Finalistes : John Campbell, Roy Jenkins; A Biography, une biographie de l'homme politique britannique Roy Jenkins Marion Coutts, The Iceberg: a Memoir Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Alison Light, Common People: The History of an English Family Caroline Moorehead, Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
2015 Le prix est attribué à NeuroTribes de Steve Silberman, un essai sur l'autisme défendant la neurodiversité.
Finalistes : Jonathan Bate, Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, biographie non autorisée, Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks, sur les liens entre langue et paysages, Emma Sky, The Unravelling.
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Référence
Liens internes James Tait Black Memorial Prize Hawthornden Prize
Liens externes Samuel Johnson Prize Homepage.
Catégorie:Prix littéraire au Royaume-Uni Catégorie:Distinction fondée en 1999