The five-person jury of history experts on why history writing is important and how they will choose this year’s winner of the Cundill History Prize.
Awards: UAE’s Etisalat, Canada’s Cundill, and USA’s Sisters in Crime Open for Submissions
Ten years in operation, the Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature is among the world’s highest paying prizes in the field, just as Canada’s Cundill Prize is in history awards.
UK Historian Daniel Beer Wins Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize for ‘House of the Dead’
Moving past Christopher Goscha on Vietnam and Walter Scheidel’s explication of violence as an historical driver, the Cundill History Prize goes to Daniel Beer in the UK.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Shortlist: Echoes of Today’s Geo-Political Challenges
The three finalists named for the Cundill History Prize focus on ‘big issues’ all of which have relevance to challenges dogging many societies today.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize Longlist: Historical Takes on Contemporary Issues
The Montreal-based Cundill History Prize longlist includes historians’ looks at Islamic culture, US evangelical faith, the Attica Prison uprising, and more.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize Names Jurors: Record Submissions
‘We need the perspective of fine historical writing more than ever,’ says Rana Mitter, a juror for the 10th-anniversary Cundill History Prize.
‘Nixon in China’ Historian Margaret MacMillan Named To Chair Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize
In ‘formulating questions and providing warnings,’ Canadian author Margaret MacMillan’s work embodies the importance of history in today’s political moment.
Anne Applebaum to the AAP: ‘Publish the Opposition’
Author and essayist Anne Applebaum told American publishers at their annual meeting that they have a role to play, both in Russia and China.
The £75,000 Wolfson History Prize Shortlist: 50th Anniversary
The UK’s Wolfson History Prize 50th-anniversary purse grows to £50,000 for the winner and £5,000 for each shortlisted author.
New Sheikh Zayed 2022 Shortlists, Including Translation
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award names its shortlisted contenders in Literary and Art Criticism, Translation, Publishing and Technology and more.