/channels/taxonomy/term/1541/all en /channels/channels/news/british-historian-daniel-beer-wins-us75000-international-cundill-history-prize-282733 <p><span>The international Cundill History Prize today announced the British historian <strong>Daniel Beer</strong> as the 2017 winner of the US$75,000 prize – the richest in non-fiction for a single work in English. The London-based historian was awarded for his ground-breaking study of Siberian penal colonies, <em><strong>The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Allen Lane)</strong></em></span></p> Fri, 17 Nov 2017 02:34:26 +0000 webfull 132759 at /channels /channels/news/cundill-prize-history-mcgill-2012-long-list-218497 <div><span>The 2012 Cundill Prize in History at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº jury has announced its long list of contending books, selecting six from among 143 works submitted this year by publishers from all over the globe. The competition, now in its fifth year, features a $75,000 U.S. grand prize, representing the world’s most lucrative international award for a nonfiction book.</span></div> <p> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:19:16 +0000 webfull 89462 at /channels