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
| 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 |
| 1965 | George Painter | Marcel Proust |
| 1964 | Ivan Morris | The Wolrd of the Shining Prince |
| 1963 | Aileen Ward | John Keats |
| 1962 | Michael Howard | The Franco-Prussian War |
| 1961 | Jocelyn Baines | Joseph Conrad |
| 1960 | Andrew Young | Collected Poems |
| 1959 | Patrick Leigh Fermor | Mani |
| 1958 | John Betjeman | Collected Poems |
| 1957 | Lawrence Durrell | Bitter Lemons |
| 1956 | Alan Moorehead | Gallipoli |
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