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Finalists revealed for world鈥檚 most lucrative award for historical writing

Three authors are in contention for the Cundill Prize in History at McGill, the world鈥檚 most lucrative award for non-fiction, which awards the author of a non-fiction history book a $75,000 U.S. grand prize.

The shortlisted selections are:

• Maya Jasanoff 鈥� Liberty鈥檚 Exiles: 听American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Alfred A. Knopf)/ UK title is Liberty鈥檚 Exiles: 听The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire (HarperPress)
• Timothy Snyder 鈥� Bloodlands: 听Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books)
• Sergio Luzzatto 鈥� Padre Pio: 听Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age (Metropolitan Books)

鈥淭he Cundill Prize jury has once again selected an outstanding group of books for the short list, which includes for the first time an author from outside North America or the United Kingdom,鈥� said Christopher Manfredi, Dean of Arts at 香蕉视频. 听鈥淭he books on this year's short list confirm the enduring impact of war, revolution and religion on people's lives. 听These events dominate our past, shape our present and condition our future. 鈥�

McGill History Professor and jury member Catherine Desbarats adds, 鈥淭hese three books are unforgettable, and each hints at legacies that are with us still. With powerful restraint, Bloodlands revisits the East-European sites where Soviet and German state ambitions met, and killed in nauseating numbers; Liberty鈥檚 Exiles brilliantly follows the refugees from America鈥檚 war of Independence as they relocate to new British Imperial places, scarred, yet bursting with political expectations of their own. 听 Packed with exquisite paradox, Padre Pio reveals the unsettling forces unleashed by saint-making in a secular age鈥�.

The Prize, now in its fourth year, accepts published books in English 鈥� or translated to English 鈥� in the area of history. In addition to the grand prize, two 鈥淩ecognition of Excellence鈥� awards of $10,000 U.S. each are granted to the runners-up. The grand prize winner will be announced at the Cundill Prize Awards Ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 13 in London, England.

About the shortlisted authors:

• Maya Jasanoff was educated at Harvard, Cambridge and Yale, and is currently a professor of history at Harvard University.
• Timothy Snyder received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He teaches history at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
• Sergio Luzzato is a professor of modern history at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of four works of history, and a regular contributor to the leading Italian dailies La Stampa and Corriere della Sera.

For more information: /cundillprize/

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