Introducing the 2013 Gelber Prize finalists: today’s nominee, Anne Applebaum
Over the past few days, we’ve been sharing interviews with the authors nominated for this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize. A literary award for the year’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs. The award is sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto in cooperation with Foreign Policy. The ...
Over the past few days, we've been sharing interviews with the authors nominated for this year's Lionel Gelber Prize. A literary award for the year's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs.
The award is sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto in cooperation with Foreign Policy. The interviews are conducted by Rob Steiner, former Wall Street Journal correspondent and director of fellowships in international journalism at the Munk School.
Yesterday, the prize board announced the five books that had been selected for the prize shortlist. They are:
Over the past few days, we’ve been sharing interviews with the authors nominated for this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize. A literary award for the year’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs.
The award is sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto in cooperation with Foreign Policy. The interviews are conducted by Rob Steiner, former Wall Street Journal correspondent and director of fellowships in international journalism at the Munk School.
Yesterday, the prize board announced the five books that had been selected for the prize shortlist. They are:
- Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum (Washington, DC and Poland), published by Signal Editions
- The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics by Paul Bracken (Connecticut), published by Times Books
- Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland (New York, New York), published by Doubleday Canada and The Penguin Press
- Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World by Kwasi Kwarteng (London, England), published by Public Affairs
- From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asiaby Pankaj Mishra (London, England), published by Doubleday Canada and Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Next up on our list of interviews is journalist Anne Applebaum. Here’s the jury citation for Iron Curtain:
“In Iron Curtain, Anne Applebaum captures the demeaning claustrophobia of Soviet-dominated regimes in Central Europe after 1945. With devastating precision, Applebaum documents the subordination of every autonomous social force in these countries by a paranoid and greedy power. Rarely has the fragility of liberalism been more deftly portrayed.”
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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