Press Release
'Young Stalin' Wins Biography Section of the Costa Book Awards03/01/2008
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) has won the Costa Biography Award. Young Stalin will now go through to compete for the main award, Costa Book of the Year 2007, which will be announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 22 January.
Simon Sebag Montefiore has also just confirmed a major film deal for Young Stalin with Miramax, part of Disney. The producer will be Alison Owen (who produced Elizabeth) and John Hodge is the screenwriter (of Shallow Grave and Trainspotting) with Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love) to direct.