Reading Copy Book Blog

Imperial Life in the Emerald City has won the Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize, reports The Independent. The book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran reveals how people are living a life of luxury inside Baghdad’s Green Zone.

Baroness Helena Kennedy, chairwoman of the judges, said: “Imperial Life in the Emerald City is up there with the greatest reportage of the last 50 years - as fine as Hershey on Hiroshima and Capote’s In Cold Blood.”

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 at 9:38 am and is filed under awards, news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.