'Anti-travelogue' on Putin's Russia wins £10,000 Ondaatje prize

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev takes prize honouring writers who best ‘evoke the spirit of a place’

Peter Pomerantsev’s “exuberant exposure of greed and corruption in modern Russia”, Nothing is True and Everything Is Possible, has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje prize, which honours the best writing “evoking the spirit of a place”.

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