Anne Applebaum

Born in 1964 in Washington, D.C., she is a journalist and Eastern European historian, as well as one of the most prominent critics of authoritarian regimes and Russian expansionism. In 1988, she worked as a correspondent for »Economist« in Warsaw. Since 2019, she has been a columnist for »The Atlantic« and a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her books have received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and the Carl von Ossietzky Prize in 2024. Anne Applebaum will be awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in October 2024 for her life’s work.