Anne Applebaum has won this year's Lionel Gelber literary award.
Applebaum’s Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine was described by the prize committee as "a magnificent book about a globally important issue that everyone should read". The American-Polish journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author was awarded a cash prize of $15,000 CDN.
The Lionel Gelber Prize is 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".
Founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber, previous prizewinners include Ezra Vogel, Lord Robert Skidelsky, Adam Hochschild and Michael Ignatieff.
