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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Lea Ypi

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History or Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History is a 2021 book by Lea Ypi published by Penguin Books. In the book, Ypi details her experience growing up before and after the fall of communism in Albania.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyAward Category: Costa Book Awards: Biography -> BiographyAward Category: Biography -> BiographyIntellectual BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryLiterature & Writers

Award History

1 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Ridenhour Book Prize2024WinnerSecondary source
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionMajor2021FinalistSecondary source
Costa Book Awards: Biography2021FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Lea Ypi88%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Albania76%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    The memoir argues that growing up in Albania through communism’s fall and its aftermath shaped Lea Ypi’s coming-of-age and intellectual development.

    Model confidence 42%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.