Introducing the 2024 Cundill History Prize Finalists
Native Nations, African American legal lives and Asia on trial. Challenging dominant narratives, the three ground-breaking Cundill History Prize finalists provide new ways of seeing and understanding both our history and the present day.
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The Cundill Prize Winner Ceremony
A prize of US $75,000 will be awarded to the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal.
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The Cundill Forum
The three 2024 finalists join in a panel discussion on the common themes throughout their respective books moderated by Professor Jacob Blanc.
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The Cundill Fringe
A lively discussion of the 2024 finalists' books, organized and moderated by students in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.
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The Cundill Lecture: Red Memory
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.
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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.
