Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian, television presenter and award-winning author of popular history books and novels.

Montefiore worked as a banker, a foreign affairs journalist, and a war correspondent covering the conflicts during the fall of the Soviet Union.

He is the author of multiple historical nonfiction books. His book Catherine the Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Marsh Biography Award. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won History Book of the Year at the 2004 British Book Awards. His book Young Stalin won the LA Times Book Prize for Best Biography, the Costa Book Award, the Bruno Kreisky Award for Political Literature, Le Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Jerusalem: The Biography was a number one non-fiction Sunday Times bestseller and a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council.

Montefiore is also an author of a variety of novels debut novel King's Parade was published in 1991. He is also the author of the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter. One Night in Winter won the Political Novel of the Year Prize and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Buckingham.