Mr B.
Jennifer Homans
2023 The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
From a shortlist of books spanning ballet, climate change, cultural revolutions, European history, the power of music and health scandals, John Vaillant's "meticulously researched, thrillingly told" Fire Weather: A True Story From A Hotter World, was named winner of the 2023 Prize.
Entries opened
17 April 2023
Longlist announced
6 September 2023
Shortlist announced
8 October 2023
Winner & prize ceremony
16 November 2023
What the judges said"‘Fire Weather' brings together a series of harrowing human stories with science and geo economics, in an extraordinary and elegantly rendered account of a terrifying climate disaster"
The shortlist
The longlist
Meet the judges for 2023
The longlist, shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges, which changes every year
Frederick Studemann
Literary Editor at the Financial Times
Arifa Akbar
Theatre critic for The Guardian
Andrew Haldane
Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts
Tanjil Rashid
Journalist and critic
Ruth Scurr
Writer and historian
Andrea Wulf
Award winning author
