Xhafer bey Ypi was an Albanian politician.
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction,formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize,is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award. With its motto "All the best stories are true",the prize covers current affairs,history,politics,science,sport,travel,biography,autobiography and the arts. The competition is open to authors of any nationality whose work is published in the UK in English. The longlist,shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges,which changes every year. Formerly named after English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson,the award was renamed in 2015 after Baillie Gifford,an investment management firm and the primary sponsor. Since 2016,the annual dinner and awards ceremony has been sponsored by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill,Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve,is a British philosopher and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Azadeh Moaveni is an Iranian-American writer,journalist,and academic. She is the former director of the Gender and Conflict Program at the International Crisis Group,and is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism. She is the author of four books,including the bestselling Lipstick Jihad and Guest House for Young Widows,which was shortlisted for numerous prizes. She contributes to The New York Times,The Guardian,and The London Review of Books.
Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist,essayist,public speaker,political scientist and activist.
The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature. The £10,000 award is for a work of fiction,non-fiction or poetry that evokes the "spirit of a place",and is written by someone who is a citizen of or who has been resident in the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
Margo Lillian Jefferson is an American writer and academic.
Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher,cultural commentator,and essayist. She has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy,metaphysics,and politics,both for scholarly audiences and the general public. She currently lives in Germany,where she is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.
Christina Lamb OBE is a British journalist and author. She is the chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times.
Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing is a Swedish philanthropist,anthropologist and publisher. She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust,one of the United Kingdom's largest philanthropic foundations,and owner of Granta magazine and Granta Books.
Kate Summerscale is an English writer and journalist. She is best known for the bestselling narrative nonfiction books The Suspicions of Mr Whicher,which was made into a television drama,The Wicked Boy and The Haunting of Alma Fielding. She has won a number of literary prizes,including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction in 2008.
Julia Lovell is a British scholar and prize-winning author and translator focusing on China.
Frances Wilson is an English author,academic,and critic.
Shahidha Bari is a British academic,critic and broadcaster in the fields of literature,philosophy and art. She is a professor at the University of the Arts London based at London College of Fashion. She is a host of the topical arts television programme Inside Culture on BBC Two,standing in for Mary Beard,one of the presenters of the BBC Radio 4 arts and ideas programme Free Thinking,and an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
Katherine Rundell is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures,named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. She is also the author of Rooftoppers,which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story,and was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal. She is a Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week,Poetry Please, Seriously.... and Private Passions.
Nicola Mary Lacey,is a British legal scholar who specialises in criminal law. Her research interests include criminal justice,criminal responsibility,and the political economy of punishment. Since 2013,she has been Professor of Law,Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE). She was previously Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at LSE (1998–2010),and then Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford (2010–2013).
Amelia Sophie Gentleman is a British journalist. She is a reporter for The Guardian,and won the Paul Foot Award in 2018 for reporting the Windrush scandal.
Sudhir Hazareesingh,GCSK,is a British-Mauritian historian. He has been a fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College,Oxford since 1990. Most of his work relates to modern political history from 1850;including the history of contemporary France as well as Napoleon,the Republic and Charles de Gaulle.
Cal Flyn is a Scottish author and journalist.
Free:Coming of Age at the End of History is a 2021 book by Lea Ypi published by Penguin Books. In the book,Ypi details her experience growing up before and after the fall of communism in Albania.
