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Miranda Carter

Posted on September 27, 2012 by The Orwell Prize -

Miranda is a writer and biographer who won the Orwell Prize for Books 2002 forAnthony Blunt: His Lives. Her latest book is The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One (2009).

  • Winner of the Orwell Prize 2002
  • Oxford 2010: Miranda Carter and Sir David Omand, ‘How intelligent are our intelligence services?’ (video)

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