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Encyclopedia > Duff Cooper Prize

The Duff Cooper Prize is a prize which goes to the best work of history, biography, or political science published in English or French. First awarded in 1956, the prize is worth £5,000. The prize was established in honour of Duff Cooper, a British diplomat, Cabinet member and acclaimed author. As an academic field, history is the study of past human activities and is generally considered a social science. ... // Today, films and television programs surrounding the lives of famous people are a major part of the entertainment industry. ... Political science is the field of the social sciences concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (February 22, 1890 - January 1, 1954), known universally as Duff Cooper, was a British diplomat, Cabinet member and acclaimed author. ...


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Duff Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (831 words)
The son of fashionable society doctor Sir Alfred Cooper, and Lady Agnes Duff (sister of the Duke of Fife), he was the youngest of four children and the only son, and enjoyed a typical gentleman's upbringing of country estates, London Society, Eton College and Oxford.
The couple's marriage was fraught with infidelities, notably Duff's affairs with the Singer sewing-machine heiress Daisy Fellowes, the French novelist Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, and Susan Mary Patten, the wife of an American diplomat.
Duff Cooper himself was the subject of a biography by John Charmley, and a major British literary award, the Duff Cooper Prize, was established in his name.
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