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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.
Thanks to the efforts of no fewer than three French designers the Duff Cooper Library looks magnificent, though its gilded busts and urns are made of papier maché and the columns are hollow. Duff and Diana Cooper were considered a great success in Paris, where they made many friends.
22 de may. de 2024 · Duff fue el típico producto de Eton, formateado con esa mezcla de extravagancia, displicencia, alta cultura y natural exceso que caracterizaba a los de su clase y condición. Nadie como los británicos de alta cuna han sido capaces de combinar cosmopolitismo con patriotismo a partes iguales.
After Duff Cooper's death in 1954, a group of his friends decided to establish a trust to endow a literary prize in his memory. The trust appoints five judges.
10 de ene. de 2021 · From October 1939 to March 1940, Conservative member of parliament Alfred Duff Cooper and his wife Diana toured the United States. Their public appearances drew thousands of audience members and provoked the ire of isolationists, but the true importance of the Coopers’ tour lay in the conversations they undertook with prominent Americans.
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, and it has been given annually ever since.
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.
