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Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eleven books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last half century.

He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian which is widely syndicated.

His books are: ‘Und willst Du nicht mein Bruder sein …’ Die DDR heute (), a book published in West Germany about what was then still East Germany; The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (), which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (), for which he was awarded the Prix Européen de l’Essai; The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (), which has been translated into 24