The £30,000 Baillie Gifford prize sets Belarusian author among diverse contenders, ranging from a memoir of living as an animal to a history of genetics
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich has been longlisted for the UK’s most prestigious award for nonfiction writing for her collage of voices from the collapsing USSR, Second-Hand Time.
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