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.
Past Winners
| 1988 | Humphrey Carpenter | The Life of Ezra Pound |
| 1987 | Robert Hughes | The Fatal Shore |
| 1986 | Alan Crawford | C.R. Ashbee |
| 1985 | Ann Thwaite | Edmund Gosse |
| 1984 | Hilary Spurling | Ivy Compton-Burnett |
| 1983 | Peter Porter | Collected Poems |
| 1982 | Richard Ellmann | James Joyce |
| 1981 | Victoria Glendinning | Edith Sitwell |
| 1980 | Robert Bernard Martin | Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart |
| 1979 | Geoffrey Hill | Tenebrae |
| 1978 | Mark Girouard | Life in the English Country House |
| 1977 | E.R. Dodds | Missing Persons |
| 1976 | Denis Mack Smith | Mussolini's Roman Empire |
| 1975 | Seamus Heaney | North |
| 1974 | Jon Stallworthy | Wilfred Owen |
| 1973 | Robin Lane Fox | Alexander the Great |
| 1972 | Quentin Bell | Virginia Woolf |
| 1971 | Geoffrey Grigson | Discoveries of Bones and Stones |
| 1970 | Enid McLeod | Charles of Orleans |
| 1969 | John Gross | The Man of Letters |
| 1968 | Roy Fuller | New Poems |
| 1967 | J.A. Baker | The Peregrine |
| 1966 | Nirad C.Chaudhuri | The Continent of Circe |
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