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Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its 2022 Finalists
Ada Ferrer, Tiya Miles, and Vladislav Zubok are this year’s finalists in the Cundill History Prize, a winner to be named December 1.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize: 2022 Shortlist
The Cundill History Prize 2022 shortlist includes a current-year Pulitzer Prize winner among its eight titles from six publishers.
In Canada, the $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its Jury
Four jurors join the chair JR McNeill for the 2022 Cundill History Prize competition, based at McGill University.
The £50,000 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.
The $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its 2022 Jury Chair
The Georgetown University-based environmental historian JR McNeill will lead the Cundill History Prize 2022 jury.
China Bestsellers in December: ‘The Charm of History’
Avidly read history-and-humor series continued their hold on the nonfiction book consumer base in China at the end of 2021.
Russian Court Closes Memorial International, 2021 Michalski Prize Winner
In what France’s foreign minister terms ‘a terrible loss,’ Moscow’s high court closes the organization and publisher Memorial International.
Marjoleine Kars Wins the $75,000 Cundill History Prize
In winning the 2021 Cundill History Prize, historian and professor Marjoleine Kars says she hopes the Guyanese will feel supported.
An Exposé of the ‘Ostarbeiter’ Wins Switzerland’s 50,000-Franc Jan Michalski Prize
The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature honors Georgia Thomson’s new translation of the title about East European victims of Nazi forced labor.