Cundill History Prize 2024 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize, which ‘rewards the best history writing in English’, have been announced.
The 2024 shortlisted titles are:
- Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Gary J Bass, Picador)
- They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Lauren Benton, Princeton University Press)
- Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Joya Chatterji, Vintage)
- Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Kathleen DuVal, Random House US)
- Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America (Andrew C McKevitt, University of North Carolina Press)
- Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Dylan C Penningroth, Liveright)
- The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Stuart A Reid, Knopf US)
- Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World (David Van Reybrouck, trans by David Colmer & David McKay, Bodley Head).
The winner, to be awarded prize money of US$75,000 (A$112,411), will be announced on 30 October. Two runners-up will each receive US$10,000 (A$14,988).
Administered by McGill University in Montreal, Canada, the Cundill Prize is awarded annually to an individual from any country for a book that has had, or is likely to have, ‘a profound literary, social and academic impact in the area of history’.
Last year’s winner of the award was Tania Branigan for Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution (Faber).
More information about the Cundill Prize is available on the prize website.
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