Best First Biography Prize

Vergeben durch The Biographers' Club

Andere Namen: Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize (Englisch)
58 Werke / 59 Elemente 21,556 Bücher 957 Rezensionen 4.2
Awarded by The Biographers' Club. The prize is currently sponsored by Slightly Foxed. http://www.biographers.club/best-first-biography-award/
Etappen:
Alle, Winner (16), Shortlist (43)
Jahre:
Alle, 2023 (6), 2022 (6), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (6), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1)
Angekündigt:
März 20: Gewinner2023 Zuletzt
Januar 5: Shortlist2023 Zuletzt

Winner 16

WerkJahr
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family von Daniel Finkelstein2023
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne von Katherine Rundell2022
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds von Osman Yousefzada2022
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History von Lea Ypi2021
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath von Heather Clark2020
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin von Jonathan Phillips2019
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found von Bart Van Es2018
The Invention of Angela Carter : A Biography von Edmund Gordon2017
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between von Hisham Matar2016
Not My Father's Son: A Memoir von Alan Cumming2015
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power von Claudia Renton2014
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands von Charles Moore2013
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England von Thomas Penn2012
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas von Matthew Hollis2011
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster von Wendy Moffat2010
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome von Roland Chambers2009

Shortlist 43

WerkJahr
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World von Leah Broad2023
Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World von Honor Cargill-Martin2023
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family von Daniel Finkelstein2023
A Pebble In The Throat: Growing Up Between Two Continents von Aasmah Mir2023
Go the Way Your Blood Beats von Emmett de Monterey2023
Confession of a Highland Art Dealer von Tony Davidson2022
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision von Charles Elton2022
Original Sins: A Memoir von Matt Rowland Hill2022
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome von Harry Sidebottom2022
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women von Annabel Abbs2021
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage von Eileen Atkins2021
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life von Alex Christofi2021
John Craxton von Ian Collins2021
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family von Hadley Freeman2020
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture von Sudhir Hazareesingh2020
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour von Shelley Klein2020
The Berlin Shadow von Jonathan Lichtenstein2020
Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) von Elizabeth Goldring2019
Self-Portrait von Celia Paul2019
Mother Ship von Francesca Segal2019
My Name Is Why von Lemn Sissay2019
The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter von George Szirtes2019
Making Oscar Wilde von Michèle Mendelssohn2018
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean von Roland Philipps2018
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein von Fiona Sampson2018
Educated: A Memoir von Tara Westover2018
David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet von Thomas Dilworth2017
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor von Adam Kay2017
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII von Mr. Gareth Russell2017
The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett von Helen Smith2017
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation von James Stourton2017
Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists von David Aaronovitch2016
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir von David Hare2016
A House Full of Daughters von Juliet Nicolson2016
East West Street von Philippe Sands2016
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary von Anita Anand2015
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir von Michael Bundock2015
Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr von Lyndsey Jenkins2015
Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett von Sarah Knights2015
Faisal I of Iraq von Ali A. Allawi2014
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties von Rachel Cooke2014
Um Leben und Tod von Henry Marsh2014
Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814 von Rory Muir2014

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