Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award (UK), le Grande Prix de la biographie politique (France), and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for political literature (Austria). Jerusalem: The Biography was a worldwide bestseller and received the Jewish Book Council’s Jewish Book of the Year Award, and the Wenjin Book Prize in China. His most recent book The Romanovs won the Literary Prize Lupicaia del Terriccio (Italy). Montefiore’s books are published in more than forty-eight languages. He is the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: Sashenka; One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2014; and Red Sky at Noon. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Dr. Montefiore graduated from Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. He lives in London.
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