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Winner of Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize announced.(Rajiv Chandrasekaran)(Brief article)
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The GBP30,000 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction has been won by Rajiv Chandrasekaran for his book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone.
Chandrasekaran, an ex-Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief, sets the book's narrative within the Green Zone, the heavily-guarded Baghdad sector from which the US governed Iraq for the first year after the downfall of Saddam Hussein, The Guardian reported.
Also on the shortlist was Ian Buruma's book Murder in Amsterdam, the story of the murder of Dutch ...
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