2021 Cundill History Prize Finalists Announced
Oct 20, 2021
The three finalists for the 2021 Cundhill History Prize have been announced. The annual Cundhill History prize recognizes the best historical writing in English that "embodies scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal." The 2021 jurors are Eric Foner, Henrietta Harrison, Michael Ignatieff (chair), Sunil Khilnani, and Jennifer L. Morgan. Each finalist will be awarded $10,000. They are:
- Rebecca Clifford, Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust (Yale University Press)
- Marie Favereau, The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- Marjoleine Kars, Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (The New Press)
Of these three finalists, one will receive the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University in Montreal, which is the largest purse for a work of nonfiction in English. The 2021 Winner announcement will take place on December 2.
