Flanagan longlisted for 2024 Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize

In the UK, Question 7 by Australian author Richard Flanagan (Knopf) has been longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$98,120).

The 12 titles longlisted for the award are:

• Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Gary J Bass, Picador)
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Jonathan Blitzer, Picador)
• The Story of a Heart (Rachel Clarke, Abacus)
• Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land (Rachel Cockerell, Headline)
• Question 7 (Richard Flanagan, Knopf)
• Nuclear War: A Scenario (Annie Jacobsen, Torva)
• A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Corsair)
• Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin (Sue Prideaux, Faber)
• Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World (David Van Reybrouck, trans by David Colmer & David McKay, Bodley Head)
• Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Cape)
• What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean (Helen Scales, Grove Press)
• The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (Adam Shatz, Apollo).

All works of nonfiction by authors of any nationality are eligible for the award, which is the richest prize for nonfiction in the UK. The winner of last year’s prize was John Vaillant for Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Sceptre).

The shortlist will be announced on 10 October, with the winner then announced 19 November.

More information about the longlist is available from the prize website.

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