TORONTO and WASHINGTON, March 13,
2018 /PRNewswire/ - Patricia
Rubin, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board and niece
of the late Lionel Gelber, today
announced that the winner of the 28th annual Lionel Gelber Prize is
Anne Applebaum for her book
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, published by
Signal/McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House.
"Anne Applebaum's Red
Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine is the gripping story of the
famine the Soviet leadership induced in Ukraine. This beautifully written history
speaks to one of the most important global issues. Famines, then
and now, are never the result of natural causes only; they are also
the result of deliberate choices that leaders make. This is a
magnificent book about a globally important issue that everyone
should read," said Jury Chair Janice
Stein.
Anne Applebaum will appear in
Toronto at the Munk School of
Global Affairs to give a free public lecture and receive her award
on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.
About the Winner: Anne
Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post, a
Professor of Practice at the London School of
Economics, and a contributor to The New York Review of
Books. Her previous books include Iron Curtain, winner
of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and
the National Book Award, and Gulag, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize in General Non-Fiction and a finalist for three other major
prizes. She lives in Poland with
her husband Radek Sikorski, a Polish
politician, and their three children.
About the Jury: Janice Gross
Stein, Jury Chair (Toronto,
Canada) is joined by distinguished jurors Ramachandra
Guha (Bengaluru, India),
Desmond King (Oxford, England), David M. Malone (Tokyo, Japan), and Jeannette Money (California, USA).
About the Lionel Gelber Prize: A literary award for the
world's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that
seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues,
the Lionel Gelber Prize was founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat
Lionel Gelber. The award is
presented annually by The Lionel Gelber Foundation, in partnership
with Foreign Policy magazine and the Munk School of Global
Affairs. A cash prize of $15,000 is
awarded to the winner.
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