Simon Sebag Montefiore





Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in 1965 and read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. Jerusalem: the Biography was awarded the Jewish Book of the Year Prize by the Jewish Book Council (USA), Catherine the Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper, and Marsh Biography Prizes. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (US), Le Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France) and the Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). Montefiore’s books are published in over 40 languages. He is also the author of the novel, Sashenka. He is now writ...more


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I have loved writing my novel Sashenka.I have spent the last ten years writing history books on Russian rulers.Each workwas based on minute and colossal archival research in Russia: first the biography of Prince Potemkin and Catherine the Great, and then two studies of Stalin: one on his life before the revolution and the other a portrait of Stalin in power. They were huge enterprises and I was... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.02 · 6,202 ratings · 795 reviews · 17 distinct works · Similar authors
Stalin: The Court of the Re...
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,971 ratings — published 2003 — 26 editions
Jerusalem: The Biography
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Young Stalin
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,244 ratings — published 2007 — 32 editions
Sashenka
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 977 ratings — published 2008 — 28 editions
Speeches That Changed the W...
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Monsters
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Potemkin: Catherine the Gre...
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Titans of History
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My Affair With Stalin
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