Announcement made on Tuesday September 22 in the UK. Cundill Shortish list.
10 make short(ish)list This year’s shortlist of ten authors for the major history prize has been announced Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email to a friend A new take on the Aztecs, a study of the expulsion of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in the 1930s, and a sweeping exploration of the East India Company are among the books nominated for a major history award. The shortlist for the 2020 Cundill History Prize was revealed on 22 September in a virtual event hosted by chair of the jury Peter Frankopan and jurors Anne Applebaum, Lyse Doucet, Eliga Gould and Sujit Sivasundaram. The award, which celebrates the best of the year’s history writing from around the world, has expanded its shortlist from eight to ten authors for the first time. This year’s finalists will be announced on 20 October, with the winner set to be revealed in November. The full shortlist is as follows: Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton (The University of Chicago Press/Peng