Simon Sebag-Montefiore (born 1965) is a British historian and writer. He was educated at Ludgrove, then Harrow School, and taught history at Gonville and Guy College at Cambridge University. Montefiore’s books are world bestsellers published in 33 countries. His first book, Caterine the Great & Potemkin, was nominated for Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography Prizes. "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" won the 2004 British Book Awards for History Book of the Year. Young Stalin won the
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Simon Sebag-Montefiore (born 1965) is a British historian and writer. He was educated at Ludgrove, then Harrow School, and taught history at Gonville and Guy College at Cambridge University.
Montefiore’s books are world bestsellers published in 33 countries. His first book, Caterine the Great & Potemkin, was nominated for Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography Prizes. "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" won the 2004 British Book Awards for History Book of the Year. Young Stalin won the LA Times Book Prize for Best Biography, the Costa Book Award, the Bruno Kreisky Award for Political Literature, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Miramax Films and Ruby Films have bought the film rights and are currently filming Young Stalin.
He has also finished a new novel, Sashenka, and a new historical book, Jerusalem: the Biography, a fresh history of the Middle East.
Member of the Royal Literary Society.
He lives in London with his wife, writer Santa Montefiore and two children. His father-in-law is landowner Charles Palmer-Tomkinson, his mother-in-law is socialite Tara Polmer-Tomkinson, and his circle of friends includes Prince Charles and Conservative Party leader David Cameron.