Lyndsey Stonebridge, author portrait
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Lyndsey Stonebridge

Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her most recent book is We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience, which was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Award for Biography. She is featured in the PBS/American Masters documentary Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny as one of the leading authorities of Arendt and her writings. Stonebridge's previous books include Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster. She is currently working on a new book, Old Women: A History of Our Future (2027). She lives in London and France.
We Are Free to Change the World

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