Simon Sebag Montefiore in Conversation with Bob Carr
Sydney Writers' Festival- Add Simon Sebag Montefiore in Conversation with Bob Carr: Thursday 22 May 2008, 6:45pm to your calendar Thursday 22 May 2008, 6:45pm
Historian, novelist and television presenter Simon Sebag Montefiore is the award winning and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling books Young Stalin, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar and Catherine the Great & Potemkin. A Russian specialist, he has also published an illustrated selection of great men and women from history, 101 World Heroes. His new novel is Sashenka and he is writing Jerusalem: the Biography, a fresh history of the Middle East. He talks with Bob Carr. Presented by Macquarie Group.
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s ancestors escaped from the Tsarist Empire at the turn of the century and this sparked his interest in that part of the world. As a war correspondent in the early 1990s, he witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union, and covered the wars in the Caucasus, from the Karabak to Grozny, as well as events in Moscow and St Petersburg. As a historian, he has researched the Russian archives for ten years. The personal stories he found there, his interviews with Russian families, and his unique knowledge of past and present in Russia, helped inspired this novel Sashenka.
His history books have been universally-acclaimed, prize-winning bestsellers published in 31 languages. 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. His latest history-book Young Stalin won the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Vienna), is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and is the winner of the Costa Biography Award. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.
Simon Sebag Montifiore’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Random House.
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