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Biography
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator, and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post.
Awards & recognition
- Carl von Ossietzky Prize · 2024
- Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association · 2024
- Order of Princess Olga, 2nd class · 2022
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 2021
- Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class · 2019
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- Duff Cooper Prize · 2018
- Lionel Gelber Prize · 2018
- Antonovych prize · 2017
- Cundill History Prize · 2013
- Duke of Westminster's Medal — Military Literature · 2013
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland · 2012
- Petőfi Prize · 2010
- Berlin Prize · 2009
- Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class · 2008
- Berlin Prize · 2006
- Pulitzer Prize — General Nonfiction · 2004
- Marshall Scholarship
