Three Jewish authors have been longlisted for the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2017, with one more entry dealing with a Jewish theme.
Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, an account of the deliberate starvation of the Ukrainian people under the USSR, has been nominated alongside Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and An Epic Poem, a meditation on the father-son relationship through the lens of Homer’s seminal work, and Simon Schama’s The Story of The Jews: Belonging, which spans more than four centuries and several continents in an extensive work of Jewish history.
Caroline Moorehead’s A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rosselis and the Fight Against Mussolini explores a Jewish family’s remarkable resistance to another regime.
A total of 12 writers are on the list, which was announced on Friday.
