Introducing the 2024
Cundill History Prize shortlist
From secret CIA plots to the hidden history of Black civil rights, from Indigenous American innovations to new takes on US gun culture and Indonesia’s struggle for independence, the shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize celebrates books that “speak to major issues in the present day”
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2024 Cundill History Prize longlist announced, 'which showcases the very best that’s being written in history.'
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2023 Winner
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution
Tania Branigan | Faber & Faber (UK), W. W. Norton (US)
“Haunting and memorable, Tania Branigan’s sensitive study of the impact of the Cultural Revolution on the lives and psyches of an entire generation in China affected every juror, as it will every reader. All of us found ourselves unable to stop thinking about this extraordinary book. All of us were deeply moved by the trauma she so vividly describes and by the skills on which she drew in doing so. This is a must-read.”
— Philippa Levine, 2023 Chair of the Jury
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Tania Branigan's Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao’s decade of madness.
