Longlist
Eat the Buddha
Barbara Demick
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The UK's premier annual prize for non-fiction books
The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers. It covers all non-fiction in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. We celebrate the best in contemporary non-fiction writing as we believe all the best stories are true.
Toby Mundy, Prize Director
The 2024 Prize
Get ready for another year of brilliant non-fiction with this year's judges, chaired by Isabel Hilton, for the 26th edition of the Prize. Keep your eyes peeled for more information...
Key dates in the 2024 prize
Entries opened
4 April 2024
Winner & prize ceremony
19 November 2024
The Prize announces the 2023 winner
We are delighted to announce that John Vaillant is the winner of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize.
The 25th anniversary prize
1599
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Published by: Faber & Faber
Find your next favourite read
The prize provides a growing list of books by astonishing authors to inspire, educate and inform.
A one off documentary
To celebrate 25 years of the prize in 2023, we shared this one-off documentary with you. All The Best Stories Are True explores the history of the prize. From nail-biting moments to life changing stories, the documentary uncovers how the prize started out as the non-fiction rival to the Booker, and what the next two and a half decades hold for readers and writers in a world now steeped in ‘fake news’.
The 2022 Prize
Find out more about all the books that made the 2022 longlist and shortlist here.
