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GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AN ORWELLIAN SOCIETY WINS £20,000 BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
Posted on: Thursday, July 01, 2010
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea (Granta) by Barbara Demick wins the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize, today Thursday 1 July.
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BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
Posted on: Wednesday, May 26, 2010
FROM ANGLING TO ANGLES, BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON SHORTLIST 'DEFIES SIMPLISTIC CATEGORISATION'
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BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON LONGLIST ANNOUNCED
Posted on: Thursday, April 22, 2010
From an impressive number of submissions, 138 in total, the 19 titles on the longlist range widely in interest and subject matter continuing the prize's reputation for highlighting diverse and thought-provoking books.
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EVAN DAVIS, ECONOMIST AND JOURNALIST, CHAIRS STELLAR JUDGING PANEL FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Posted on: Friday, February 05, 2010
The panel for the 2010 Prize is announced today, 5 February. Chaired by Evan Davis, economist, journalist and BBC presenter, the panel consists of author and arts editor for the Financial Times, Jan Dalley; executive editor of The Times Daniel Finkelstein; editor of New Scientist, Roger Highfield; and best-selling historian Stella Tillyard.
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LEVIATHAN, OR THE WHALE by Philip Hoare wins £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize
Posted on: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A book about a life long obsession with whales inspired by the literary classic Moby-Dick has won the UK's most prestigious non-fiction prize.
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AN OBSESSIVE TALE ABOUT WHALES IS WILLIAM HILL'S 2/1 FAVOURITE FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Posted on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
After Herman Melville published his book, Moby Dick, in 1851, no one saw whales in quite the same way again. But what is the true nature of the whale? Why does it fascinate us? In Leviathan, Phillip Hoare seeks to locate and identify his life-long obsession with whales.
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SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION DOMINATE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON SHORTLIST
Posted on: Friday, May 22, 2009
The judges for the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize announced the shortlist today, 22 May. Now in its eleventh year the prize is worth £20,000 to the winner.
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BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON LONGLIST ANNOUNCED
Posted on: Thursday, May 14, 2009
Michael Holroyd's first major biography in fifteen years on longlist up against Alain de Botton and Richard Holmes
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The 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
Posted on: Friday, April 17, 2009
The UK's most prestigious non fiction prize has been renamed the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction it was announced today
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