Media welcome to cover (No dinner seating
provided )
Monday
November 2, 2015
Cocktails 6pm Formal Dinner: 7pm / Announcement 9:15 p.m.
Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto
Cocktails 6pm Formal Dinner: 7pm / Announcement 9:15 p.m.
Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto
WHY COVER:
One of this year's three Cundill Prize Finalists will be announced as the winner of the $75,000 US prize on Monday, November 2nd. The announcement will take place at approximately 9.15 p.m. as part of a gala dinner celebrating these important authors and their shortlisted books.
One of this year's three Cundill Prize Finalists will be announced as the winner of the $75,000 US prize on Monday, November 2nd. The announcement will take place at approximately 9.15 p.m. as part of a gala dinner celebrating these important authors and their shortlisted books.
WHERE:
The Shangri-La Hotel, Third Floor Ballroom, 37 King St. East,188 University Avenue
The Shangri-La Hotel, Third Floor Ballroom, 37 King St. East,188 University Avenue
Meet this year's 2015 Cundill
Prize and learn about their books:
• Sven Beckert – Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Susan Pedersen
– The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford
University Press)
• Bettina Stangneth
– Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass
Murderer (Bodley Head)
Harvard Professor Sven
Beckert researches and teaches
the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular
emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social,
political and transnational dimensions. The Cundill Prize nominated Empire
of Cotton: A Global History, is the first global
history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. The book won the
Bancroft Award, The Philip Taft Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize.
Columbia Professor
Susan Pedersen specializes in British
history, the British Empire, comparative European history, and international
history. Her nominated book is The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of
Empire and
details the League of Nations and its impact on the imperial order. Dr.
Pedersen is the lone Canadian in the running for the Cundill Prize. She
was born in Japan (her parents were Canadian missionaries) and has retained her
Canadian citizenship.
German philosopher Bettina Stangneth has written a book that debunks the
myth that Adolf Eichmann was a banal stooge for Hitler. Her book Eichmann before
Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer has been translated
into English and has been hailed as the most important historical book about Eichmann in this century.
Most
Prize Jurors & Foundation Members available for Interview/Comments:
The jurors for the 2015 prize are Toronto award winning author and publisher Anna Porter, Harvard History Professor Maya Jasanoff, University of Ottawa Professor Chad Gadfield, Author, Journalist David Frum and Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner Anthony Cary
The Cundill Prize in
Historical Literature at McGill (Cundill Prize)
was established in 2008 to recognize and promote literary and academic
achievement in history. The award is offered each year by McGill University to
an individual, of any nationality and from any country, who has published a
book determined to have had (or likely to have) a profound literary, social and
academic impact in the area of history.
Media Contacts:
TORONTO:
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416-801-3101 416-489-5868
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