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A prize of US $75,000 will be awarded to the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal.
The three 2024 finalists join in a panel discussion on the common themes throughout their respective books moderated by Professor Jacob Blanc.
A lively discussion of the 2024 finalists' books, organized and moderated by students in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.
Tania Branigan, Foreign Leader Writer at The Guardian, will deliver the Cundill Lecture on her award-winning book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Branigan was awarded the 2023 Cundill History Prize for her "haunting" excavation of the Cultural Revolution.
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”
Tania Branigan | Faber & Faber (UK), W. W. Norton (US)