Young Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling books Young Stalin,
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar and Catherine the Great & Potemkin.
Young Stalin won the Biography of the Year Prize in the Costa Book Awards 2007. The judges described it as "Everything you could ask for from a biography - exhaustive research, a compelling subject and a beautifully written narrative that will endure as a portrait of one of the towering figures of modern history."
For the most recent press profile, see the Vanity Fair interview here.
In addition Miramax Films and Ruby Films, in a co-production with FilmFour, are to make a movie of Young Stalin. Alison Owen ((Elizabeth and the forthcoming The Other Boleyn Girl) of Ruby Films is the producer, Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love) is to direct and John Hodge (Trainspotting, Shallowgrave and The Beach) is the screenwriter.
Young Stalin has been nominated as a finalist for Best BIography in the LA TImes Book Prizes
The paperback of 'Young Stalin' will be published on 1st May. The novel 'Sashenka' will be available in hardback on 30th June.
Simon Sebag Montefiore has also just been awarded the Bruno Kreisky
Prize (Vienna) for Political Literature for Young Stalin.
by Alfred A. Knopf (www.aaknopf.com)