The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction has revealed its longlist, with 12 authors, including Salman Rushdie and Viet Thanh Nguyen, in contention for the British literary award.
Rushdie made the longlist for Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, his memoir about the 2022 stabbing attack that nearly killed him, while Nguyen was nominated for his A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial.
Jonathan Blitzer was longlisted for Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, alongside Adam Shatz for The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon; Gary J. Bass for Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia; Rachel Clarke for The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and a Medical Miracle; and Richard Flanagan for Question 7.
Also nominated for the prize were Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell; Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen; Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux; What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales; and Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, written by David Van Reybrouck and translated by David Colmer and David McKay.
The Baillie Gifford Prize was established in 1999. Previous winners have included Jonathan Coe for Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson and John Vaillant for Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World.
The shortlist for the prize will be revealed on Oct. 10, with the winner announced on Nov. 19.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
