Playing Moldovans at Tennis
Tony Hawks
2000 The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The nominated books in the second year of the prize highlighted the extraordinary strength of biography writing, particularly in the UK. Of the six shortlisted books, three were biographies, with the remaining delving into the history of human genetics, a humours travel book, and a study of the United Nations.
Longlist announced
7 April 2000
Shortlist announced
2 May 2000
Winner & prize ceremony
23 May 2000
What the judges said"This may be a book that satisfies the scholar but in every sense of the word it is a special work; it is a book which will also seduce the general reader.”
The shortlist
A prestigious shortlist of books are selected each year for the prize.
Meet the judges for 2000
The longlist, shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges, which changes every year.
Nigella Lawson
Creator of the restaurant column in The Spectator
Timothy Garten Ash
Winner of the Orwell Prize for journalism
Stephen Fry
Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in the film ‘Wilde’
Susan Greenfield
Former director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Baroness Helena Kennedy
Labour member of the House of Lords