Justin Marozzi

Justin Marozzi (born 1970) is an English journalist, historian and travel writer.

Biography Marozzi was a pupil at The King's School, Canterbury and then studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He spent a year studying broadcast journalism at Cardiff University before winning a Thouron Award in 1994 to study for a Master's degree in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. and is a Senior Research Fellow in Journalism and the Popular Understanding of History at Buckingham University. He lives in Norfolk with his wife Julia and their Transylvanian rescue dog. Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World (2025)

Awards 2015 Ondaatje Prize for Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood Shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World