Winners

For more information on each of the winners, visit the Winners section.

Book Prize

1994 Anatol Lieven, The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence 
1995 Fionnuala O’Connor, In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland 
1996 Fergal Keane, Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey 
1997 Peter Godwin, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
1998 Patricia Hollis, Jennie Lee: A Life
1999 D.M. Thomas, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life
2000 Brian Cathcart, The Case of Stephen Lawrence
2001 Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
2002 Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives
2003 Francis Wheen, Hoo-Hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991-2001 
2004 Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century 
2005 Michael Collins, The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class 
2006 Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Moses, Citizen and Me
2007 Peter Hennessy, Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties 
2008 Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape 
2009 Andrew Brown, Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future That Disappeared 

Journalism Prize

1994 Neal Ascherson, The Independent on Sunday
1995 Paul Foot and Tim Laxton, Private Eye
1996 Melanie Phillips, The Observer
1997 Ian Bell, The Scotsman
1998 Polly Toynbee, The Independent
1999 Robert Fisk, The Independent
2000 David McKittrick, The Independent
2001 David Aaronovitch, The Independent
2002 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent
2003 Brian Sewell, Evening Standard
2004 Vanora Bennett, The Times
2005 Matthew Parris, The Times
2006 Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
2007 Peter Beaumont, The Observer
2008 Johann Hari, The Independent
2009 Patrick Cockburn, London Review of Books and The Independent

Blog Prize

2009 Jack Night, NightJack – An English Detective

Special Prize

David Lipsey, The Economist
2004 Hugo Young
2007 BBC Newsnight
2008 Clive James
2009 Tony Judt