Alexander Clapp
The Economist's 1843 magazine, The Guardian, London Review of BooksAlexander Clapp is a journalist based in Athens. He writes for the London Review of Books and The Guardian Long Read and has been an Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a fellow at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. His first book, Waste Wars, examines the global trash trade.
His shortlisted pieces are:
- A journey through the world’s newest narco-state
- Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish
- Rip their skin off’ Alexander Clapp in Montenegro
His writing is exceptional. The prose flows effortlessly. He writes in an artful and clever way. He inserts humour especially in his piece on Ecuador where his black humour gives context, brings place and his characterisation is spot on.
– Maryam Moshiri, Judge, The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2025
