Timothy Snyder is Levin Professor of History at Yale University and has written and edited a
number of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European
history: his most recent book On Tyranny was an international bestseller. Previous books
include Black Earth which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and Bloodlands which
won the Hannah Arendt Prize the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding the Ralph Waldo
Emerson Award in the Humanities and the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
