The 2019 finalists will be announced in Toronto on October 16.

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CBC Radio

Maya Jasanoff talks about her Cundill-winning The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World in this one-hour interview with CBC Ideas. 

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BBC Radio 3

What kind of history should we write? The 2018 winner appears on Free Thinking alongside juror Peter Frankopan. 

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View all 2018 media coverage of the prize in the Press Archive

National Post

Read extracts from all three finalists: 

Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser 

The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasanoff 

A Cold Welcome by Sam White 

The Globe & Mail

Historical writing is enjoying a boom. Here’s why that matters. Mark Gilbert, 2018 Chair of the Jury, writes in the Globe & Mail. 

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Montreal Gazette

How "trip of my lifetime" led to The Dawn Watch. The Montreal Gazette interviews Maya Jasanoff. 

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News

Read the latest from the Cundill History Prize in our News section.


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@AAKnopf @TheBodleyHead 'The revolutionary idea that still shapes the world': An extract from Julia Lovell's Maoism… https://t.co/oUJr99MoOs
@AAKnopf @TheBodleyHead 'Maoism's greatest strength is its scope' - Another great review of Julia Lovell's Maoism i… https://t.co/4VgzH5ILSx
'Global Maoism is best understood less as a project driven by Chinese planning and cash than as a rather loose move… https://t.co/DrzA6Ul1l7
@AAKnopf @TheBodleyHead An expert on Chinese history, in this 2014 interview with @LAReviewofBooks Lovell discusses… https://t.co/Q9Nx0ppkYj

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