Cundill History Prize Longlist Announced

Sep 26, 2017

The Cundill History Prize has announced a longlist of books, ranging in topic from Vietnam to the Islamic world and from Russia to North America, that are in contention for the international prize that rewards the best history writing in English. The prize comes with a $75,000 purse, making it the richest non-fiction prize for a single work in English. The two runners-up each receive a Recognition of Excellence Award worth US$10,000. 

The longlisted works are:

  • Black Elk by Joe Jackson (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
  • Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Heather Thompson (Pantheon Books)
  • Martin Luther by Lyndal Roper (Bodley Head)
  • Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel (Allen Lane)
  • The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
  • The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsar by Daniel Beer (Allen Lane)
  • The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times by Christopher de Bellaigue (W. W. Norton & Company)
  • Vietnam: A New History by Christopher Goscha (Basic Books)
  • ussia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by Stephen Smith (Oxford University Press)
  • The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Schneidel (Princeton University Press)

The three finalists will be announced by judges' chair Margaret MacMillan at a press conference at Canada House in London on October 26. All three authors will attend the Cundill History Prize Gala in Montreal on November 16, where the winner will be announced

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