Cundill History Prize Goes to Daniel Beer

Nov 17, 2017

McGill University announced that the 2017 winner of the Cundill History Prize, which recognizes the best history writing in English and comes with a $75,000 (U.S.) purse, is going to British historian Daniel Beer. The London-based author is being awarded for his study of Siberian penal colonies in The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Allen Lane). The book has also been shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize, The Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, and the Longman History Today Prize, 2017. 

Beer was selected for the Cundill History Prize among 300 submissions by a jury of historians and authors including Amanda Foreman, Roy Foster, and Rana Mitter.

Two runners up each received a Recognition of Excellence Award, together with US $10,000: Christopher Goscha was awarded for his definitive history of Vietnam (Vietnam: A New History, Basic Books), Walter Scheidel for his controversial economic thesis The Great Leveler (Princeton University Press). 

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