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Mentioned in Despatches. Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian.
Duff Cooper was a British politician, diplomat, and author, who resigned from the Cabinet over the Munich Agreement and worked for closer ties with France. He wrote biographies of Talleyrand and Haig, and a novel based on Operation Mincemeat.
The Duff Cooper Prize (currently known as the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize) is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of history, biography, political science or occasionally poetry, published in English or French. The prize was established in honour of Duff Cooper, a British diplomat, Cabinet member and
YearAuthorTitleFrance on Trial: The Case of Marshal ...The Restless Republic: Britain without a ...Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of ...Alfred Duff Cooper, 1.° Visconde de Norwich (22 de fevereiro de 1890 - 1 de janeiro de 1954), foi um diplomata e escritor britânico. Foi secretário da Câmara dos Comuns do Reino Unido . [ 1 ]
The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize celebrates the best in non-fiction writing. The first award was made in 1956 in honour of the statesman and writer Alfred Duff Cooper (1890 – 1954) : it has been given annually ever since.
23 de out. de 2005 · Dishing the dirt - about time too. Duff Cooper's frank and racy diaries are finally out. Robert McCrum on a vivid, fascinating and often distasteful portrait of the early 20th century. 'Keep...
The Duff Cooper Prize was first awarded in 1956, to the historian and war-correspondent Alan Moorehead for Gallipoli, his now-classic account of the 1915-16 Dardanelles campaign. Winners since then have included works of social and political history, biography, memoir, travel-writing, literary criticism, nature-writing and poetry.
