Lionel Gelber Prize
The Lionel Gelber Prize is a Canadian literary prize . Every year since 1990, the prize has been awarded to a non-fiction book in English that is dedicated to a foreign policy topic and deepens the public debate on important international issues (“... a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues ... "). The award was launched in 1989 by the Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber (* 1907). It is endowed with 15,000 CAD . The award ceremony is organized by The Lionel Gelber Foundation in collaboration with Foreign Policy magazine and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto .
Award winners
- 1990: The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence
- 1991: Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of the Warlord States by Dorothy V. Jones
- 1992: Truman by David McCullough
- 1993: Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World by Kanan Makiya
- 1994: Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism by Michael Ignatieff
- 1995: Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century 1914–1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
- 1996: Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev by Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov
- 1997: Aftermath: The Remnants of War by Donovan Webster
- 1998: Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa In the Apartheid Years by Robert Kinloch Massie
- 1999: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism In Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
- 2000: A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History by Patrick Tyler
- 2001: John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky
- 2002: Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead
- 2003: America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
- 2004: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
- 2005: The year of the award has been adjusted to the current year.
- 2006: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild
- 2007: The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
- 2008: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
- 2009: A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East by Lawrence Freedman
- 2010: The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor
- 2011: Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh D. Grant
- 2012: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
- 2013: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
- 2014: The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
- 2015: The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
- 2016: Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of the Drone by Scott Shane
- 2017: A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS by Robert F. Worth
- 2018: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- 2019: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
Web links
- The Lionel Gelber Prize at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d About the Lionel Gelber Prize . In: munkschool.utoronto.ca, accessed March 15, 2019.
- ^ Lionel Gelber Prize . In: librarything.com, accessed March 15, 2019.