Jewish authors longlisted for £30,000 non-fiction prize

A Nobel laureate who dedicated her award to fighting antisemitism is among the writers longlisted for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize, the UK’s most prestigious award for non-fiction.

Svetlana Alexievich, from Belarus, who last year won the Nobel Prize in literature, is one of 10 writers to be nominated for the £30,000 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction for her book Second-hand Time which explores life in the Soviet Union.

Also among the nominees are Jewish authors Ben Judah and Philippe Sands. Mr Judah is longlisted for This is London, an investigation of the capital city’s changing immigrant population.

Mr Sands earned his nomination for East West Street, which chronicles the origins of international law, with a heavy focus on the Nuremberg Trial.