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Studemann to chair Baillie Gifford judges panel for 2023 award
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction has announced the full judging panel for the 2023 award, chaired by Financial Times literary editor Frederick Studemann.
Studemann will be joined by The Invention of Nature (John Murray) author Andrea Wulf and the Guardian’s theatre critic, Arifa Akbar. The writer and historian Ruth Scurr will also be judging the award, alongside journalist and critic Tanjil Rashid and chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts Andrew Haldane.
The submissions for this year’s prize are now open. Publishers have until 17th June to enter up to three non-fiction books per imprint with publication dates between 1st November 2022 and 31st October 2023.
Studemann said: “I am delighted to be chairing such a distinguished panel of judges that brings together a wide range of expert and original voices. I have long been a fan of the Baillie Gifford Prize, one of the pre-eminent literary prizes in the English-speaking world.
"We are living through something of a golden age of non-fiction with lots of new and different writers having the opportunity to tell their stories and I look forward to reading and debating their work with my fellow judges.”
Toby Mundy, executive director of the prize, added: "This is a momentous year for the Baillie Gifford Prize. We are incredibly lucky to have Frederick Studemann as our chair and he and his distinguished fellow judges will select the strongest non-fiction books of the year at a time of incredibly strong and diverse publishing in this area. I don’t envy them their task, and can’t wait to see what they choose."
The prize aims to recognise and reward the best of non-fiction and is open to authors of any nationality. It covers all non-fiction in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.
The shortlist will be revealed in October and the longlist in September. The winner of the prize will be announced on 16th November 2023 at the Science Museum, at an event sponsored by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
