Somerset Maugham Award
1 appearances
Timothy Garton Ash
ティモシー・ガートン・アッシュ
Timoshī Gāton Asshu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1955-07-12 （London）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English, German
- Residence History
- Oxford → Stanford → Berlin
Career
- Occupations
- Historian, Author, Commentator, Professor
- Active Years
- 1978-2025
- Affiliations
- St Antony's College, Oxford, Hoover Institution
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Polish Academy of Learning
- Influenced By
- George Kennan
- Influenced
- Timothy Snyder
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Edmund's School | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Sherborne School | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Exeter College, Oxford | Modern History | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| St Antony's College, Oxford | — | — | DPhil (未完) | — | United Kingdom |
| Free University of Berlin | — | — | — | 1978 | West Germany |
| Humboldt University of Berlin | — | — | — | 1980 | East Germany |
St Edmund's School
Country:
United Kingdom
Sherborne School
Country:
United Kingdom
Exeter College, Oxford
Modern History
Country:
United Kingdom
Undergraduate
St Antony's College, Oxford
Degree:
DPhil (未完)
Country:
United Kingdom
Postgraduate
Free University of Berlin
Period:
1978
Country:
West Germany
DAAD scholarship
Humboldt University of Berlin
Period:
1980
Country:
East Germany
First GDR–UK exchange student
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Charlemagne Prize | — | — | City of Aachen | 受賞 |
| 1984 | Somerset Maugham Award | The Polish Revolution: Solidarity | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1989 | Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1995 | Premio Napoli | — | ジャーナリズム | — | 受賞 |
| 2006 | Orwell Prize | — | ジャーナリズム | — | 受賞 |
| 2024 | Lionel Gelber Prize | Homelands: A Personal History of Europe | — | — | 受賞 |
Charlemagne Prize
2017
Organization:
City of Aachen
Result:
受賞
Somerset Maugham Award
1984
Work:
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity
Result:
受賞
Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon
1989
Result:
受賞
Premio Napoli
1995
Category:
ジャーナリズム
Result:
受賞
Orwell Prize
2006
Category:
ジャーナリズム
Result:
受賞
Lionel Gelber Prize
2024
Work:
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Orwell Prize
1 appearances
-
Edition 13 (2006) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity
1984 HistoryHistory of the Solidarity movement in Poland 1980-82.
SolidarityCold WarLabor movement
The File: A Personal History
1997 MemoirPersonal history based on Stasi file from East Berlin studies.
StasiSurveillance stateEast Germany
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
2023 HistoryPersonal history of contemporary Europe.
European integrationPost-Cold WarFreedom
Bibliography
- Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein ... Die DDR heute (1981)
- The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980–82 (1984)
- The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989)
- The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (1990)
- In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993)
- The File: A Personal History (1997)
- History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s (1999)
- Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (2004)
- Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name (2009)
- Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World (2016)
- Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (2023)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Eyewitness historyJournalisticEssayistic
- Recurring Motifs
- Central EuropeFree speechCold War
Legacy
Known as a historian of contemporary Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe, described as a 'historian of the present'.