Best First Biography Prize

Uitgereikt door The Biographers' Club

Andere Namen: Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize (Engels)
58 Werken / 59 Items 21,266 boeken 941 Besprekingen 4.2
Awarded by The Biographers' Club. The prize is currently sponsored by Slightly Foxed. http://www.biographers.club/best-first-biography-award/
Stages:
Alle, Winner (16), Shortlist (43)
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (6), 2022 (6), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (6), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1)
Aangekondigd:
maart 20: Winnaar2023 Recent
januari 5: Shortlist2023 Recent

Winner 16

WerkJaar
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family door Daniel Finkelstein2023
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne door Katherine Rundell2022
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds door Osman Yousefzada2022
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History door Lea Ypi2021
Rode komeet: het korte leven en de vlammende kunst van Sylvia Plath door Heather Clark2020
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin door Jonathan Phillips2019
Ver-geet-mij-niet : over het verborgen leven van een Joods meisje door Bart Van Es2018
The Invention of Angela Carter : A Biography door Edmund Gordon2017
De terugkeer door Hisham Matar2016
Not My Father's Son: A Memoir door Alan Cumming2015
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power door Claudia Renton2014
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands door Charles Moore2013
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England door Thomas Penn2012
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas door Matthew Hollis2011
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster door Wendy Moffat2010
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome door Roland Chambers2009

Shortlist 43

WerkJaar
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World door Leah Broad2023
Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World door Honor Cargill-Martin2023
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family door Daniel Finkelstein2023
A Pebble In The Throat: Growing Up Between Two Continents door Aasmah Mir2023
Go the Way Your Blood Beats door Emmett de Monterey2023
Confession of a Highland Art Dealer door Tony Davidson2022
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision door Charles Elton2022
Original Sins: A Memoir door Matt Rowland Hill2022
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome door Harry Sidebottom2022
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women door Annabel Abbs2021
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage door Eileen Atkins2021
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life door Alex Christofi2021
John Craxton door Ian Collins2021
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family door Hadley Freeman2020
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture door Sudhir Hazareesingh2020
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour door Shelley Klein2020
The Berlin Shadow door Jonathan Lichtenstein2020
Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) door Elizabeth Goldring2019
Self-Portrait door Celia Paul2019
Mother Ship door Francesca Segal2019
My Name Is Why door Lemn Sissay2019
The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter door George Szirtes2019
Making Oscar Wilde door Michèle Mendelssohn2018
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean door Roland Philipps2018
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein door Fiona Sampson2018
Leerschool door Tara Westover2018
David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet door Thomas Dilworth2017
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor door Adam Kay2017
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII door Mr. Gareth Russell2017
The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett door Helen Smith2017
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation door James Stourton2017
Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists door David Aaronovitch2016
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir door David Hare2016
A House Full of Daughters door Juliet Nicolson2016
East West Street door Philippe Sands2016
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary door Anita Anand2015
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir door Michael Bundock2015
Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr door Lyndsey Jenkins2015
Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett door Sarah Knights2015
Faisal I of Iraq door Ali A. Allawi2014
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties door Rachel Cooke2014
Allereerst niet schaden verhalen van een hersenchirurg door Henry Marsh2014
Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814 door Rory Muir2014

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