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The UK’s most Prestigious non-fiction
award
The BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is the
richest non fiction prize in the UK, worth £30,000
to the winner.
Sponsored by BBC FOUR, the prize aims to reward the best
of non-fiction and is open to authors of all non-fiction
books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics,
science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the
arts.
BBC FOUR televise the awards ceremony and feature complementary
programming on the channel – forming a key part of
their commitment to diverse, intelligent and culturally enriching
programmes.
The Trustees
The BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is
managed by a steering committee and administered by Colman
Getty.
The steering committee is made up of:
- Stuart Proffitt,
Chair, (Publishing Director, Penguin),
- Antony Beevor (historian
and author),
- Mark Bell (Channel Executive, BBC FOUR and
BBC TWO),
- Peter Florence (Director of the Guardian Hay
Festival),
- Martin Grindley (independent bookseller),
- Dotti
Irving (Chief Executive, Colman Getty),
- Adam Kemp (Commisioner,
BBC Arts),
- Mervyn King (Governor, The Bank of England),
- James Naughtie (broadcaster, BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme),
- Alan Rusbridger (Editor of The Guardian),
- Peter
Straus (literary agent, Rogers, Coleridge and White)
- Martin Taylor (International Adviser for Goldman Sachs)
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