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Princeton’s Gary Bass wins $75,000 Cundill Prize for ‘The Blood Telegram’
TORONTO – Princeton University professor and journalist Gary Bass has won this year’s US$75,000 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature at McGill for “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.”
The Alfred A. Knopf title, about the role of the U.S. in 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Lionel Gelber Prize, among others.
Bass won the Cundill honour at a Toronto gala Thursday, beating out London resident Richard Overy for “The Bombing War: Europe 1939-45” and Brussels-based David Van Reybrouck for “Congo: The Epic History of a People.”
The other two finalists each receive US$10,000.
The Cundill Prize for non-fiction was established in 2008 by McGill alumnus F. Peter Cundill, who died in 2011.
The prize is administered by McGill University’s Dean of Arts.
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