In winning the 2021 Cundill History Prize, historian and professor Marjoleine Kars says she hopes the Guyanese will feel supported.
Frankfurt Studio: The $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its Finalists
The Cundill History Prize Lecture is set for December 1, with last year’s winner, Camilla Townsend, speaking.
Frankfurt Studio: Canada’s Cundill History Prize to Name Its 2021 Finalists
The historian Margaret MacMillan, a former Cundill History Prize jury chair, speaks with current chair, Michael Ignatieff, in a Frankfurt Studio event.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize Announces Its 2021 Shortlist
With its finalists to be named from Frankfurter Buchmesse, the Cundill History Prize releases its shortlist.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names 2021 Jury
The four jurors joining Michael Ignatieff for the Cundill Prize this year are based in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Cundill History Prize Names Michael Ignatieff To Lead Jury
The former leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff is also the author of several books including a Booker-shortlisted novel.
Camilla Townsend Wins the $75,000 Cundill History Prize
Townsend’s ‘Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs’ uses indigenous Nahuatl language sources and stories to surface its themes.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its Three 2020 Finalists
Saying that each book has ‘a striking resonance for the world around us in 2020,’ the Cundill jury’s Peter Frankopan names the finalists.
Canada’s Cundill History Prize Shortlist: 10 Instead of Eight This Year
Canada’s Cundill History Prize reveals its larger-than-usual shortlist of 10 titles, Peter Frankopan calling them ‘a fantastic collection.’
Canada’s Cundill Prize Jurors: History, Urgency, Trump
‘It’s so easy now to turn the past into myth,’ says Pulitzer Prize -winning Cundill juror Anne Applebaum. She and her colleagues flag historical analysis amid a pathogen’s assault and leadership failures.