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    The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the...
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  • Baillie Gifford & Co is an investment management firm which is wholly owned by partners, all of whom work within the firm. It was founded in Edinburgh...
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    children's book prize at the 2017 Costa Book Awards. Her 2022 book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize, making her...
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  • journalism. In 2023 it was short listed for both the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize. The book is centred around more than 100 hours of interviews...
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    longlisted and once shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction and was a Finalist for the Cundill Prize for History. The BBC television documentary...
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    Jack the Ripper, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction. Rubenhold's focus on the victims of murder...
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    February 2022. "Shortlist announced for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction | The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction". thebailliegiffordprize.co...
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    against Humanity (2016) has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and has been translated into 24 languages...
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  • short-listed for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Caroline Elkins' first book, for which she won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction...
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    Cross 2014 Spear's Book Award, winner for A Spy Among Friends 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize, shortlist for The Spy and the Traitor Forgotten Fatherland: The...
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  • translation was shortlisted for both the 2024 Cundill History Prize and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize. Frakking, Roel (2021-11-05). "Revolusi: Indonesië en het...
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    Modern China, was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize and a nominee for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Jing Tsu was born in Taiwan on 23...
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    2015 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. Chernobyl won the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize). Much of Plohky's evidence in the...
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  • Weld Award for biography, and was a finalist for both the Baillie Gifford Prize and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Stanley received her BA...
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  • film-maker and curator. He won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his work Leviathan, or the Whale...
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  • has been a judge for the Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. She is the director...
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    Margo Jefferson (category Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winners)
    racial injustice itself." In 2016 Negroland was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in...
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  • Transgender Nonfiction and was shortlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize. McBee began regularly writing about masculinity...
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  • Prize in History winner for Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist for Imperial Twilight Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese...
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  • It was named to the shortlist of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize, considered the UK's premier annual prize for non-fiction books. Jeremy Adam Eichler...
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  • National Book Award for Nonfiction as well as the winner of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction. The book was also selected as one of the notable...
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  • Caroline Elkins (category Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners)
    "tour de force of historical excavation." It was a finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, selected as one of The New York Times Top 100 Books...
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  • Empire of Pain (category J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize-winning works)
    of its parts is a stunning crime story." The book won the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction and the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography...
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  • Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2022-01-11. "The Baillie Gifford Prize 2018 announces shortlist". Baillie Gifford Prize. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018...
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    Awards, Finalist, Political Book of the Year (I Am Malala) 2020 The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlist (Our Bodies, Their Battlefield) 2021...
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  • fall of communism in Albania. Free was shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2021 Costa Book Award for biography. In January 2022, BBC...
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  • and the charm of a raconteur." The book was long listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019, and short listed for the Duke of Wellington medal for Military...
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  • imaginable." The Baillie Gifford Prize, 2016 Best History Books of the Year, The Guardian, 2016 The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, 2017 Non-fiction...
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  • shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, and longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. The Sunday Times noted...
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  • Shapiro’s contextual approach". 1599 won the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize (now the Baillie Gifford prize) and its "Winner of winners" in 2023. Lister, David (26 May...
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