Duff Cooper’s bookplate,
designed by Rex Whistler
The Duff Cooper Prize
Since 2005 we have been generously supported by
which donates the Champagne for the award presentation,
and contributes £1000 towards the £5,000 prize.
The Winner 2012
Strindberg - A Life By Sue Prideaux
Yale University Press
"A rich and absorbing biography... Writing the life of a frenzied, unstable genius like Strindberg is an enormous challenge, and Prideaux rises to it with fine authority." - John Carey, The Sunday Times
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