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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

An annual award for the most exciting new narrative non-fiction, awarded to authors of any nationality and published in the UK or Ireland.

Award Criteria

For the most exciting new narrative non-fiction book, with a preference for authors new to non-fiction writing.

2025 Winner

WINNER
Helen Garner

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries

2024 Winner

WINNER
Richard Flanagan

Question 7

2023 Winner

WINNER
John Vaillant

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

2022 Winner

WINNER
Katherine Rundell

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

2021 Winner

WINNER
Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty