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3 finalists announced for $75,000 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
MONTREAL – A history of bombing during the Second World War, a glimpse into an obscure chapter of the Cold War and a look at the Democratic Republic of Congo are among the finalists for the US$75,000 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.
The three finalists for the prize were announced Monday by Prof. Christopher Manfredi, Dean of McGill University’s Faculty of Arts.
The Cundill Prize bills itself as “the world’s most lucrative international award for a non-fiction book.” Runners-up receive US$10,000 each.
The finalists were chosen from 165 submissions from 70 publishers around the world.
They are: Princeton University professor Gary Bass for “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide” (Knopf); London resident Richard Overy for “The Bombing War: Europe 1939-45” (Allen Lane); and Brussels-based David Van Reybrouck for “Congo: The Epic History of a People” (ECCO).
The winner will be announced Nov. 20.
The prize was established in 2008 by McGill alumnus F. Peter Cundill, who died in 2011.
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