Cundill History Prize
The Cundill History Prize is a Canadian price for Historical Literature, awarded in 2008. The prize is awarded by McGill University in Montreal ; the winners are chosen by a prominent jury that changes every year. The main prize is endowed with US $ 75,000, the second and third place with US $ 10,000 each. The award is given to outstanding historical works in English, which can also be translations from other languages.
The award is named after F. Peter Cundill (1938–2011), a Canadian investment manager who established the award and financed it through a foundation. In addition to the Cundill History Prize , the foundation also funds a $ 25,000 Peter Cundill Fellowship in History annually .
Previous winners were:
- 2019 Julia Lovell : Maoism: A Global History
- 2018 Maya Jasanoff : The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
- 2017 Daniel Beer : The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
- 2016 Thomas W. Laqueur : The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
- 2015 Susan Pedersen : The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
- 2014 Gary Bass : The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide
- 2013 Anne Applebaum : Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
- 2012 Stephen Platt : Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West, And The Epic Story of The Taiping Civil War
- 2011 Sergio Luzzatto : Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age
- 2010 Diarmaid MacCulloch : A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
- 2009 Lisa Jardine : Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
- 2008 Stuart B. Schwartz : All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Cundill History Prize , McGill University page, accessed December 2, 2019.
- ↑ Peter Cundill Fellowships in History , McGill University page, accessed December 2, 2019.