Revolusi
David Van Reybrouck
2024 The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The 26th edition of the Prize saw an author who was the first to 'win the double' of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Booker Prize for Fiction, and a shortlist that tackled issues from colonialism to migration, and organ donation to nuclear war.
Entries opened
4 April 2024
Longlist announced
5 September 2024
Shortlist announced
10 October 2024
Winner & prize ceremony
19 November 2024
What the judges said"Question 7 is an astonishingly accomplished meditation on memory, history, trauma, love and death – and an intricately woven exploration of the chains of consequence that frame a life"
The shortlist
The longlist
Meet the judges for 2024
The longlist, shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges, which changes every year.
Isabel Hilton
Journalist, broadcaster and founder of China Dialogue
Heather Brooke
Investigative journalist, writer and former academic
Alison Flood
Culture and comment editor at New Scientist
Peter Hoskin
Books & culture editor at Prospect Magazine
Tomiwa Owolade
Journalist and author
Chitra Ramaswamy
Author and journalist
