The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers. It covers all non-fiction in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.

The 2022 Shortlist is;

Caroline Elkins - Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire 

Jonathan Freedland - The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World 

Sally Hayden -  My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route 

Anna Keay - The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown 

Polly Morland  - A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story 

Katherine Rundell - Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne 

Hear what the judges had to say about the 2022 Shortlist

https://youtu.be/a3meBo0cmVs

The winner of the 2022 prize will be announced on 17 November. 

The winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction was Patrick Radden Keefe for Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

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