Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing or history of the present which have charted the transformation of
Europe over the last quarter-century. He is Professor of European
Studies in the University of Oxford, Director of the European Studies
Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the
Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in
the New York Review of Books and he writes a fortnightly column in the
Guardian which is widely syndicated across Europe and the Americas.
His latest book, Free World: Why a Crisis of the West reveals the Opportunity of our Time (2004) was first published by Penguin in the UK, recently appeared in Germany, and will shortly be published in the US, Spain, Italy, France, Poland and a number of other countries.
His honours include the David Watt Memorial Prize, Commentator of the Year in the What the Papers Say annual awards for 1989, the Premio Napoli, the Imre Nagy Memorial Plaque,the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize for political writing, the Order of Merit from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, and the British CMG.
His latest book, Free World: Why a Crisis of the West reveals the Opportunity of our Time (2004) was first published by Penguin in the UK, recently appeared in Germany, and will shortly be published in the US, Spain, Italy, France, Poland and a number of other countries.
His honours include the David Watt Memorial Prize, Commentator of the Year in the What the Papers Say annual awards for 1989, the Premio Napoli, the Imre Nagy Memorial Plaque,the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize for political writing, the Order of Merit from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, and the British CMG.
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