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2000 - Shortlist
SIX OUTSTANDING BOOKS COMPETE FOR £30,000 PRIZE
The shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
2000 was announced today at Dr Johnson’s
House in Gough Square. The UK’s most valuable
prize for non-fiction is worth £30,000 to the winner
and £2,500 to each of the five other shortlisted
authors.
The Samuel Johnson Prize celebrates the
variety and originality of non-fiction publishing today.
The six shortlisted books cover a diverse range of subjects
and highlight the extraordinary strength of biography writing,
particularly in the UK at the moment. Out of the six
there are three biographies, of Karl Marx, Berlioz and W.B.
Yeats, as well as a humorous travel book, a history of human
genetics and a study of the United Nations and its role.
The distinguished panel of judges for the Samuel
Johnson Prize 2000 are writer and broadcaster Nigella
Lawson (Chair); writer and actor Stephen
Fry; historian Timothy Garton Ash;
scientist Susan Greenfield and QC Baroness Helena
Kennedy.
The shortlist is:
you can click on the book title
to read a sysnopsis of the book
Judges Comment >
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