Five women and three men make the shortlist for the 2019 Cundill Prize, which stresses history for non-historians and internationalism.
Searls Wins Wolff Translator’s Prize; UK’s Women’s Poets Announce Swift Book
Translator Damion Searls has received the US$10,000 Wolff Translator’s Prize, and the Women Poet’s Prize announces a collection of Rebecca Swift’s work.
Industry Notes: Wolff Translator’s Shortlist; Cundill Submission Deadline
As the deadline arrives today (April 15) for submissions to Canada’s Cundill History Prize, the Goethe-Institut names its Wolff Translator’s shortlist.
Greenhill Books Commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the Real-Life ‘Great Escape’
Military history publisher Michael Leventhal—whose father founded the London Book Fair—plans four titles to celebrate events portrayed in an iconic WWII film.
Canada’s 2018 Cundill History Prize Finalists: Authors and Climate in Context
The Cundill History Prize, working its way down to a winner, has announced its ‘even shorter list’ of three finalists, with the winner to be named later this month in Montreal.
Canada’s Cundill History Prize Announces Its 2018 Shortlist
From studies of the Vatican and politics to climate change and factories’ impact on societies, the Cundill History Prize shortlist for this year is notable, according to the jury chair, for its authors’ craftsmanship.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize 2018 Jurors: Five Historians in Search of Contemporary Insights
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.
University of Warwick’s Peter Marshall Wins £40,000 Wolfson History Prize
With its hallmark requirement that expert academic works be readable by ordinary citizens, the 46-year-old Wolfson History Prize this year goes to a book on faith.
Awards Notes: Giles Tremlett Wins Elizabeth Longford, Sisters in Crime Changes Rules
‘The stratagems of politics, marriage, war, dynastic calculation, and religious oppression,’ say the jurors, put Giles Tremlett over the top for the Elizabeth Longford Prize. And Sisters in Crime makes a change in who can apply for the Eleanor Taylor Bland grant.
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.