New York. The Last Colony (performed in 2022 at the Avignon Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival). Sands' book East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2016) has been translated into twenty languages. It formed the basis for the documentary My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did. The film is directed by David Evans and premiered in April 2015 at the Tribeca Film Festival. It was released in the US on 6 November 2015 and in the UK on 20 November 2015. Sands wrote the script and appears in the film alongside two sons of prominent Nazi officials, Niklas Frank (the son of Hans Frank, the Governor-General of occupied Poland) and Horst von Wächter (the son of Otto Wächter, the Governor of Kraków in Poland and Galicia in Ukraine). The documentary, which explores the relationship between the two sons and their fathers, won the Yad Vashem Chairman's Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was nominated Best Documentary at the Stockholm Film Festival and at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. In 2018, Sands wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary Intrigue: The Ratline about the disappearance of senior Nazi Otto Wächter, investigating the "ratlines" by which he escaped justice. Sands has since published a book on this topic. In 2019, he published an Introduction to Franz Kafka's The Trial. In 2020, he published The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive. In 2022, he published The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy about Chagos. Sands served for a number of years on the Board of the Tricycle Theatre and is currently President of English PEN (having served on the Board since January 2013). He is a member of the Board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature, and his interviews at Hay have included Julian Assange (2011); Vanessa Redgrave (2011); Keir Starmer (2013); John Le Carré (2013); Lord Justice Leveson (2014) and Tippi Hedren (2016). Personal life Sands lives in North London with his wife and three children. In an interview for The Guardian Sands asserted that "I want to be treated as Philippe Sands individual, not Philippe Sands Brit, Londoner or Jew." Bibliography General Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (2005; Arabic edition in 2007; Farsi edition in 2008; Chinese edition in 2012; Turkish edition