The longlist has been unveiled for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, which recognizes "the best of nonfiction and is open to authors of any nationality." The winning author, to be named November 19, receives £50,000 (about $65,045), while the other shortlisted authors, who will be announced October 10, get £5,000 (about $6,505). This year's Baillie Gifford longlist includes:
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass (American-Canadian)
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (American)
The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke (British)
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell (British)
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan (Australian)
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen (American)
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Việt Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese-American)
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (British)
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck (Belgian), translated by David Colmer & David McKay
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (Indian-British-American)
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean by Helen Scales (British)
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz (American)