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Sir Alistair Horne: 2016 Founder's Literature Award Recipient

Honored at the 2016 Liberty Gala with a Founder's Literature Award, acclaimed British historian Sir Alistair Horne shares a discussion of his life's work with award-winning journalist, author, and 2014 Pritzker Literature Award recipient Antony Beevor.

Sir Alistair Allan Horne is a British journalist, biographer and preeminent historian of Europe, best known for his work on military history in France. He is author of 18 books, detailing conflicts throughout the 20th century.  

Horne has spent much of his life abroad, including periods at schools in the United States and Switzerland. He served with the Royal Air Force from 1943-44 and ended his war service in 1947 with the rank of Captain in the Coldstream Guards attached to MI5 in the Middle East. He then attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts. After leaving Cambridge, Alistair Horne concentrated on writing, and spent three years in Germany as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph

Sir Alistair is an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and is the official biographer of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Horne has received many accolades for his writing. His most distinguished awards include the Hawthornden Prize in 1963 for his work The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, and the Wolfson Prize in 1978 for his work A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

In 1993, Alistair was awarded the French Légion d'honneur and received his Doctors of Letters (LittD) from Cambridge. He received a knighthood in 2003 for his work on French history.  Horne and his wife Sheelin, an artist, live in Oxfordshire, England.

ANTONY BEEVOR is a renowned British historian and bestselling author best known for his writings on World War II, which have been published in more than 30 languages and have sold more than six million copies worldwide. He is the author of Crete – The Battle and the Resistance, which earned a Runciman Prize in 1992; Stalingrad, which earned a Samuel Johnson Prize, a Wolfson Prize for History, and a Hawthornden Prize for Literature, D-Day: The Battle for Normandy; and The Second World War.  A fellow of Britain’s prestigious Royal Society of Literature and former chairman of the Society of Authors, Beevor has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, East Anglia, York, and Kent — where he is also a visiting professor.