Marsh Biography Award

Uitgereikt door Marsh Christian Trust

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This Award is presented to the author of the best biography written in the previous two years by a British author.

The judges look for a work that is histrorically important, records singificant toon meer human achievement and is representative of the highest standards or writing and research.

The Award has been running since 1987 and is presented biennially.

The official website is here and the LibraryThing Awards page for the shortlisted books can be found here. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (13), Shortlist (15)
Jaren:
Alle, 2011 (6), 2009 (2), 2007 (3), 2005 (3), 2003 (2), 2001 (2), 1999 (2), 1997 (2), 1995 (1), 1993 (1), 1991 (1), 1989 (1), 1987 (1)

Winner 13

WerkJaar
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan door D. R. Thorpe2011
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain door Rosemary Hill2009
George Mackay Brown: The Life door Maggie Fergusson2007
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart door John Guy2005
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA door Brenda Maddox2003
Mandela : de geautoriseerde biografie door Anthony Sampson2001
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 door Richard Holmes1999
Erskine Childers: A Biography door Jim Ring1997
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography door Selina Hastings1995
De man die Maigret niet was de biografie van Georges Simenon door Patrick Marnham1993
Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy: A Biography door Hugh Cecil1991
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa door David Gilmour1989
Shackleton door Roland Huntford1987

Shortlist 15

WerkJaar
Hoe te leven Een leven van Montaigne In één vraag en twintig pogingen tot een antwoord door Sarah Bakewell2011
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies: A Life door John Carey2011
Frances Partridge: The Biography door Anne Chisholm2011
Caravaggio een leven tussen licht en duisternis door Andrew Graham-Dixon2011
Verhalenverteller de biografie van Roald Dahl door Donald Sturrock2011
A dangerous liaison: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre door Carole Seymour-Jones2009
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery door Wendy Moore2007
Voltaire de almachtige een leven lang op zoek naar vrijheid door Roger Pearson2007
Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy door Ian Kelly2005
IJsweg door Gillian Slovo2005
Aldous Huxley door Nicholas Murray2003
Catherine the Great and Potemkin door Simon Sebag-Montefiore2001
Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual door Richard English1999
David Lean: A Biography door Kevin Brownlow1997
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton door Kate Williams

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