Books by Matthew Longo
The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
by Matthew Longo
🏆 Winner of the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing (nonfiction)
“In the summer of 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did something unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain—and held a picnic. They were joined by East German holidaymakers in Ladas rolling up for goulash, beer and brass-bands. I did not know this story and I loved the way it surprised me and captured the time, the idealism, and the role of ordinary citizens in the unravelling of the Iron Curtain” Read more...
The Best Politics Books of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Interviews where books by Matthew Longo were recommended
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Question 7
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal PĂ©tain
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
by Nathan Thrall
10 Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2024
10 Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2024
The nonfiction book prizes we cover at Five Books are a great way to keep up with books on important subjects that are written in an accessible and engaging way. We keep an eye on prizes in a range of nonfiction genres—including history, politics, business, science, sports and general nonfiction.
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
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Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
by Matthew Longo
The Best Politics Books of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The Best Politics Books of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for writing about politics, awarded annually to books and articles that best meet George Orwell’s own ambition “to make political writing into an art.” The nonfiction books that made the 2024 shortlist ranged from evolution to political philosophy, from memoir to the Middle East.
