Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

The most prestigious non-fiction prize in the UK, formerly known as the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Established

1999

Country

United Kingdom

Prize

£50,000

Frequency

annual

Non-Fiction

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Notable Past Winners

Explore some of the most celebrated books that have won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, from groundbreaking debuts to literary masterpieces that have shaped contemporary literature.

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Notable Past Winners

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries

Question 7

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Award Winners

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries

Question 7

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently

H Is for Hawk

The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Leviathan or, The Whale

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson

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