Philippe Sands wins the 2016 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction

Human rights lawyer given the £30,000 award – formerly known as the Samuel Johnson prize – for his history of crimes against humanity, East West Street

Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands has beaten the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich to win the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction for East West Street, his account of the history of genocide and crimes against humanity.

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