Description:
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize in Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2026 American Library in Paris Book Award
Longlisted for the 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
From an award-winning historian, the story of World War II artists, intellectuals, and refugees, and one famed Paris hotel.
Brief description: Jane Rogoyska is the author of Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth, a winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize; Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa; and a novel, Kozlowski. She lives in London.
Review Quotes: Poignant and painful, Hotel Exile takes the vehicle of a hotel as a means of telling the story of exile. Set in the middle of Paris, before, during and after the Second World War, it reveals a part of this period of history that is often left unexplored.--Thangam Debbonaire, Chair of Judges for Women's Prize for Non-Fiction