Baillie Gifford Prize

The latest episode of The Read Smart Podcast, is dedicated entirely to our much anticipated longlist. Host Razia Iqbal is joined by three members of our judging panel, Caroline Sanderson, Laura Spinney and Samanth Subramanian, to discuss all twelve longlisted books and why these have been chosen to be in the running for this year’s prize.

Listen now to hear all about the longlist. The podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. To find out more about The Baillie Gifford Prize, visit www.thebailliegiffordprize.com

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The announcement of the six books shortlisted for this year’s prize will take place on 10 October during an event at Cheltenham Literature Festival. The winner will be announced on 17 November at the Science Museum at an award ceremony generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The announcement will also be livestreamed across the Baillie Gifford Prize social channels.

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On 5th September, the Conservative Party will announce the next leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party and the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  Ahead of this, tune into the latest episode of the Read Smart podcast, where Razia Iqbal, is joined by Sonia Purnell, who has written biographies on Boris Johnson and Clementine Churchill, alongside John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator for The Independent and author of a number of books on Tony Blair and New Labour. Razia and our guests explore the importance of the political biography, delving into the difficulties of separating the author’s beliefs from that of their subject, and how the ascent of the celebrity politician has affected the genre.

 

Listen now to hear more about the fascinating world of non-fiction. This podcast is generously supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

Read Smart Podcast is commissioned by The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and is  generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. 

 

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The longlist of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize will be announced on 13 September, the shortlist on 10 October and the winner on 17 November this year.

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Tune into the latest episode of the Read Smart podcast, ‘George Floyd: Two Years On’ where writer and critic Tomiwa Owolade and Olivette Otele PhD, Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS, discuss the widespread impact of George Floyd’s tragic death on both the cultural landscape and the publishing world. Our guests delve into the role of the Black Lives Matter movement, unconscious bias and which works of non-fiction have personally inspired them.

Listen now to hear more. This podcast is generously supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

Tune into the latest episode of the Read Smart podcast, ‘Money Talks’ where our host Shahidha Bari speaks to economist Vicky Pryce and legal scholar Joan C Williams about the turbulent world of economics, where it stands in the non-fictional sphere and the state of our economy today. Our guests explore the reputation economics has as a science, as well as the position of women within this complex structure.

Listen now to hear more. This podcast is generously supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

On 24th February, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the weeks since, we’ve heard horrifying tales of human rights abuses and families forced to flee their homes. Nevertheless, Ukrainian forces have managed to resist the Russian military for now, whilst Western nations have expressed their support, sending relief to Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Russia.

In this month’s episode of Read Smart, we’re joined by Sir Antony Beevor, a multi-award winning historian of war whose book Stalingrad, which recounted the battle between Russian and German forces in Eastern Europe in the Second World War, won the very first Samuel Johnson Prize – the precursor to the Baillie Gifford Prize. His new book, publishing this coming May, is Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921.

Antony is joined by Serhii Plokhii, the professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, who won the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy.

Joining Antony and Serhii, is Polly Jones, the professor of Russian at The University of Oxford, who recently wrote an introduction to Ukrainian author Vassily Grossman’s epic novel Life and Fate.

This episode is hosted by author and critic Shahidha Bari, and generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

Listen now as these three hugely distinguished guests discuss the conflict in Ukraine, the extent to which Putin’s current actions are based in historical motivation and how far the conflict marks a historical turning point.

The Disasters Emergency Committee and British Red Cross are taking donations for the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal online. If you’d like to support this, please visit redcross.org.uk

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This month, our host Shahidha Bari is joined by food writer Bee Wilson and Tom Tivnan, managing editor of the Bookseller, to delve into the fascinating, complex and endlessly enjoyable genre of food writing. In this episode, Shahidha and our guests discuss the role the pandemic has played in the role of the cook book in our society, the controversial participation of celebrities in the genre and the influence of famous campaigners battling food poverty.

Welcome back for another season of Read Smart - the podcast that explores the world of non-fiction and provides you with some behind-the-scenes insights into the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize. In this episode Shahidha Bari discusses the biggest trends to watch out for in non-fiction publishing during 2022, with industry experts Matthew Hennessey, Non-Fiction Buyer at Waterstones and Alexis Kirschbaum, Publishing Director at Bloomsbury.

Toby Mundy, Director of the Baillie Gifford Prize, is also joined by Reeves Wiedeman, author and features writer at New York Magazine, who has been investigating the recent case of the ‘book thief’. A story of impersonation that has recently come to a light with the arrest of 29 year old Filippo Bernardini by the FBI. Listen now to hear more.

This podcast is generously supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation.

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Join us this week for the exciting winner episode, where our host Razia Iqbal speaks to the winner of this year’s prize, Patrick Radden Keefe about his work ‘Empire of Pain’ and how he feels in the days following this life-changing announcement. We’re also joined by some of our other incredible shortlisted authors live from the winners ceremony, which was generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

In our final shortlist episode of the Read Smart podcast, Harald Jähner, author of ‘Aftermath’ speaks to Toby Mundy about the tempestuous decade that followed German reconstruction between 1945-1955.

The winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction will be announced at an event at the Science Museum, generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, on Tuesday 16 November.

Read Smart Podcast is commissioned by The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

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The next Baillie Gifford Prize shortlisted author on the Read Smart Podcast is Patrick Radden Keefe, who talks to Toby Mundy about the infamous legacy of the controversial Sackler Dynasty.

The winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction will be announced at an event at the Science Museum, generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, on Tuesday 16 November.

Read Smart Podcast is commissioned by The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

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