Hannah Fry Shortlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2018
Hannah Fry's Hello World has made the shortlist for the ?30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, which celebrates the best in non-fiction writing.
The six titles on this year?s shortlist are:
- Hello World: How to be Human in The Age of The Machine, Hannah Fry (Doubleday)
- The Spy and the Traitor, Ben Macintyre (Viking)
- Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man, Thomas Page McBee (Canongate Books)
- Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China?s Last Golden Age, Stephen R Platt (Atlantic)
- Chernobyl: History of A Tragedy, Serhii Plokhy (Allen Lane)
- She Has Her Mother?s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity, Carl Zimmer (Picador)
Fiammetta Rocco, chair of the judges, said:
?To judge the 2018 Baillie Gifford prize is to feel once again how miraculous books are. We have read about history and war and science and spying. And along the way we?ve been thrilled, jolted, consoled, informed and illuminated. It?s been a remarkable journey.?
The winner of the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction will be announced on Wednesday 14 November at an awards dinner at RIBA supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
The six titles on this year?s shortlist are:
- Hello World: How to be Human in The Age of The Machine, Hannah Fry (Doubleday)
- The Spy and the Traitor, Ben Macintyre (Viking)
- Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man, Thomas Page McBee (Canongate Books)
- Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China?s Last Golden Age, Stephen R Platt (Atlantic)
- Chernobyl: History of A Tragedy, Serhii Plokhy (Allen Lane)
- She Has Her Mother?s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity, Carl Zimmer (Picador)
Fiammetta Rocco, chair of the judges, said:
?To judge the 2018 Baillie Gifford prize is to feel once again how miraculous books are. We have read about history and war and science and spying. And along the way we?ve been thrilled, jolted, consoled, informed and illuminated. It?s been a remarkable journey.?
The winner of the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction will be announced on Wednesday 14 November at an awards dinner at RIBA supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.