The UK’s Wolfson History Prize gives its top honor this year to Halik Kochanski’s ‘Resistance,’ on the World War II underground.
Nandini Das Wins the £25,000 British Academy Prize
Courting India by Nandini Das, an account of Sir Thomas Roe’s 17th-century mission to India wins the British Academy Book Prize for Cultural Understanding.
British Academy Book Prize Names a Shortlist, and Reports on Sales Impact
London’s British Academy Book Prize reports on its 2022 winner’s sales and rights deals as it releases its 2023 nonfiction shortlist.
Jennifer Homans Wins Biographers International’s Plutarch Award
The Biographers International Organization’s 2023 Plutarch Award goes to Jennifer Homans’ biography of modern ballet icon George Balanchine.
Charles Tripp Chairs the British Academy’s £25,000 Book Prize Jury
The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding will name its winner in October. Publishers are submitting now.
‘When Women Kill’ Wins the 2022 British Academy Book Prize
Commended for revealing ‘attitudes to female homicides,’ Alia Trabucco Zerán’s work of research wins the British Academy’s £25,000 award.
The UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize Releases Its 2022 Shortlist
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction will award £50,000 to its winner in November, and now has produced a six-title set of finalists.
British Academy Book Prize Announces Its 2022 Shortlist
Six titles are shortlisted this year by this 10-year-old award for nonfiction that contributes to ‘global cultural understanding.’
Awards: British Academy Prize Names Jurors, Opens Submissions
The 2021 jury for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Understanding returns in the 2022 cycle, seeking works that ‘public understanding of world cultures.’
Sujit Sivasundaram Wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize
British Academy jurors name Sujit Sivasundaram as this year’s winner for his portrayal of ‘Indigenous peoples in the Indian and Pacific oceans’ in his nonfiction book ‘Waves Across the South.’
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