Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum, born in 1964 in Washington, D.C., is a historian and journalist. Her career began in 1988 as a Warsaw correspondent for The Economist, where she reported on the collapse of communism. Her major books include The Gulag (2003), Iron Curtain (2012), Red Famine (2019), and Twilight of Democracy (2021). For The Gulag, she received the Duff Cooper Prize and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, among other honors. In 2024, she received the Carl von Ossietzky Prize and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. That year, she and Radosław Sikorski also jointly received the European Prize for Political Culture from the Hans Ringier Foundation.