The 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction announces the shortlist for its £50,000 prize.
Yesterday, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the UK’s most prestigious annual prize for nonfiction, announced their 2023 shortlist. “I’m delighted with the range, originality and relevance of this year’s short-list,” said Frederick Studemann, this year’s chair of judges. “While each title is distinct and different—some are the result of a lifetime’s work, others the product of courageous and clear-sighted reporting—they are all top class thought-provoking, even surprising, works of literary non-fiction.”
The winning writer, who will take home £50,000, will be announced on Thursday, November 16. Until then, here’s the shortlist:
Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children
(Swift Press)
Tania Branigan, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution
(Faber & Faber)
Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848- 1849
(Allen Lane, Penguin Random House)
Jeremy Eichler, Time’s Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and The Music of Remembrance
(Faber & Faber)
Jennifer Homans, Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century
(Granta Books, Granta)
John Vaillant, Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
(Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton)
