Best First Biography Prize

Given by The Biographers' Club

Andre Navne: Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize (Engelsk)
58 Works / 59 Items 21,261 Books 941 Reviews 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)
Years:
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)
Announced:
marts 20: Winner2023 Nyeste
januar 5: Shortlist2023 Nyeste

Winner 16

VærkÅr
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family af Daniel Finkelstein2023
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne af Katherine Rundell2022
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds af Osman Yousefzada2022
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History af Lea Ypi2021
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath af Heather Clark2020
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin af Jonathan Phillips2019
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found af Bart Van Es2018
The Invention of Angela Carter : A Biography af Edmund Gordon2017
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between af Hisham Matar2016
Not My Father's Son: A Memoir af Alan Cumming2015
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power af Claudia Renton2014
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands af Charles Moore2013
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England af Thomas Penn2012
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas af Matthew Hollis2011
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster af Wendy Moffat2010
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome af Roland Chambers2009

Shortlist 43

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

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