Simon Sebag Montefiore

British historian · United Kingdom · Writers · Born 1965 · age 61

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Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian, television presenter and author of history books and novels, including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Jerusalem: The Biography (2011), The Romanovs 1613-1918 (2016), and The World: A Family History of Humanity (2022).

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2013“What’s Edith Wharton like?’‘Just like our own barons and princelings here.”In their wordsp. 61Read the whole statement

“Do you know Ovid’s poems on love?’ she said. ‘He wrote that the bedroom is the only place where you can do exactly what you please, and truly be yourself.”In their wordsp. 299Read the whole statement

“The greatest privilege of childhood’, she said, ‘is to live safely in the present.”In their wordsp. 320Read the whole statement

“Heartbreak, he thought, is an agonizing disease that you’re delighted to have.”In their wordsp. 393Read the whole statement

“Every love story’s a requiem,’ she told her.”In their wordsp. 426Read the whole statement

“Nikolasha and Rosa had died for the romantic delusion: totalitarian love as reckless melodrama and desperate possession, an orchestra of trumpets and thunderbolts.”In their wordsp. 441Read the whole statement

2008Grand prix de la biographie politiqueAward2003Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1965Born27 June 1965

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Montefiore giving an author talk at Politics and Prose on The World: A Family History (20 May 2023)

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What’s Edith Wharton like?’‘Just like our own barons and princelings here.
2013, p. 61, Own words
War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.
2013, pp. 279-280, Own words
Do you know Ovid’s poems on love?’ she said. ‘He wrote that the bedroom is the only place where you can do exactly what you please, and truly be yourself.
2013, p. 299, Own words

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Grand prix de la biographie politique2008

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2003

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Sibling Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

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Jodie Marsh65.6

Robert Bauval63.7 Philip Ball63.4

Peter Morgan62.3

Jerome K. Jerome63.2

Daphne du Maurier62.1

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