May 15 2008
Samuel Johnson Prize shortlist released
The forerunners for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, awarded yearly to the best work of the genre released in the UK, were released today. The shortlist is:
- Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart - Tim Butcher
- Crow Country - Mark Cocker
- The Whisperers - Orlando Figes
- The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul - Patrick French
- The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House - Kate Summerscale
The winner of the prize, now in its 10th year, will be awarded £30,000 at a ceremony on July 15th. French’s book, a biography of novelist and essayist V.S. Naipaul, is the current favourite to win.
Sources:
CBC
Samuel Johnson Prize
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