Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum

American-British journalist and writer.
Date of Birth: 25.07.1964
Country: USA

Content:
  1. Biography of Anne Applebaum
  2. Journalism Career
  3. Accomplishments and Recognition

Biography of Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum, also known as Anne Elizabeth Appelbaum, was born in 1964 in Washington, D.C. Her parents, lawyer Harvey M. Applebaum and his wife Elizabeth, who worked in an art gallery, sent Anne to the Quaker school Sidwell Friends School, from which she graduated in 1982. In 1986, Anne received a bachelor's degree from Yale University, where she also joined the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. Her education did not stop there, as she studied on a Marshall Scholarship at the London School of Economics and St Antony's College, Oxford.

Anne Applebaum

Journalism Career

In 1988, Applebaum moved to Warsaw, Poland, where she started working as a correspondent for the British magazine "The Economist". It is known that in 1992, Anne married Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski. The couple has two children, Aleksander and Tadeusz. Over time, Anne Applebaum became a respected journalist, political scientist, and author. Her first book, "Between East and West," won the Adolph Bentinck Prize in 1996. Her second book, "Gulag: A History," published in 2003, earned her the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2004. The book explores the history of the Soviet Gulag.

Anne Applebaum

Accomplishments and Recognition

Anne Applebaum is known to be fluent in English, French, Polish, and Russian. In her short blog in September 2009, she condemned the arrest of Roman Polanski. In February 2008, Applebaum was awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, third class. In 2010, she received the Hungarian Petőfi Award in Budapest at the House of Terror Museum. In late 2009, Applebaum found herself under special police protection after the engine of her car exploded under unexplained circumstances. Currently, Anne Applebaum is a columnist and a member of the editorial board at "The Washington Post".

Anne Applebaum

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