A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor at Buckingham University, he lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. He has presented BBC television series on the Holy Cities of Jerusalem, Rome and Istanbul. Dr Montefiore's next major history book will be THE ROMANOVS: RISE AND FALL, 1613-1917. He is also the author of two acclaimed novels, SASHENKA and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER. JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JEWISH BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE (USA). Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar, as its mildly sensationalist subtitle might suggest, is not too strong on political ideas and historical forces. In Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s meticulously researched, authoritative biography of Stalin’s early years, the blur comes into sharp focus. YOUNG STALIN won the COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD (UK), the LA TIME BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY (USA), LE GRAND PRIX DE LA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE (France) and the KREISKY PRIZE FOR POLITICAL LITERATURE (Austria). STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS. Author: Sebag-Montefiore, Simon, 1965- Format: Book xxv, 693 p., 32 p. CATHERINE THE GREAT AND POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE. Available in the National Library of Australia collection. His books are published in over 40 languages. Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy.
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