‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City ‘ wins Samuel Johnson Prize

26 June 2007 Books+Publishing

Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Bloomsbury), an account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, has been named the 2007 winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction. Now in its ninth year, the Samuel Johnson prize, worth £30,000 (A$70,000), celebrates ‘originality and diversity in contemporary...