NCR Book Award




The NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, established in 1987 and sponsored by NCR Corporation, was for a time the UK's major award for non-fiction.[1] Closing in 1997 after a period of decline and scandal, it is best remembered as the forerunner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize.



History


The award was founded at a time when there were no major non-fiction awards in Britain comparable to the highly successful Booker Prize for fiction.[2] It was part of a new "golden age" of non-fiction that started in the 1980s, according to Antony Beevor.[2] In the early 1990s, NCR was acquired by AT&T and the award became rudderless and dated; one critic said the "NCR spoke volumes of the Thatcherised values of contemporary English culture - a winner-takes-all triumphalism, a boastful indifference to good writing, a corresponding obsession with design and presentation".[1] In 1997, the award experienced an existential scandal when it was revealed the judges had used 'professional readers', summaries and book reviews instead of reading the whole corpus of entries.[1][3][4] In response, one of the previous winners, Peter Hennessy, approached Penguin with the idea for a new award, and an anonymous benefactor was found who funded the establishment of the Samuel Johnson Prize (1999).[2] Facing bad publicity and a tarnished reputation, the NCR Award closed out with A People's Tragedy in 1997.[1]



Winners


Source 1988-1995: [5]



  • 1988 David Thomson, Nairn in Darkness and Light (Hutchinson)

  • 1989 Joe Simpson, Touching the Void (Jonathan Cape)

  • 1990 Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (Viking)

  • 1991 Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (Viking)

  • 1992 Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (HarperCollins)

  • 1993 Peter Hennessy, Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 (Jonathan Cape)

  • 1994 John Campbell, Edward Heath: A Biography (Jonathan Cape)

  • 1995 Mark Hudson, Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village (Jonathan Cape)

  • 1996 Eric Lomax, The Railway Man (Jonathan Cape)[6]

  • 1997 Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 (Jonathan Cape)[3]



References





  1. ^ abcd Robert McCrum (16 June 2001). "A life of the Samuel Johnson Prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2018..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ abc Antony Beevor (29 June 2008). "The BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize". The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 October 2018.


  3. ^ ab David Harrison (18 May 1997). "From the Observer archive, 18 May 1997: Literary prize judges admit failure to read all the books". The Guardian. Retrieved October 6, 2018.


  4. ^ David Lister (3 April 1999). "What Does It Take To Win A Literary Prize?: 250 Book Prizes - and still counting". The Independent. Retrieved 6 October 2018.


  5. ^ "The 1996 NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction Shortlist Announced" (Press release). 22 April 1996. Retrieved 2018-10-06.


  6. ^ "Eric Lomax (Obit)". The Telegraph. 9 October 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2018.










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