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Binyon takes top prize
By Andre Paine, Evening Standard Last updated at 00:00am on 10.06.03The world's most lucrative non-fiction prize - worth £30,000 - has been awarded to Oxford don TJ Binyon, the biographer of Pushkin.
The BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize was awarded at the Savoy last night to Binyon, 63, of Wadham College.
His book Pushkin beat Claire Tomalin's biography Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, and Orlando Figes's cultural history of Russia, Natasha's Dance, in a shortlist of six. Binyon is a regular book reviewer for the Evening Standard.
