The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is a prize granted by the British Academy for "outstanding scholarly contributions to global cultural understanding". The prize is £25,000.
It was created in 2013 as the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding and then the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, before becoming the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in 2021.
List of recipients
Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding
- 2013 Karen Armstrong, "in recognition of her body of work that has made a significant contribution to understanding the elements of overlap and commonality in different cultures and religions"
- 2014 Jonathan Jansen, University of the Free State, South Africa, for his book Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past (2009)
- 2015 Neil MacGregor, British Museum, for his books A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010) and Germany: Memories Of A Nation (2014)
- 2016 Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh, for her book Islam: A New Historical Introduction (2015).
Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
- 2017 Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, for his book "Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World" (2016).
- 2018 Kapka Kassabova for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe.
- 2019 Toby Green for his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution.
- 2020 Hazel V. Carby for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
British Academy Book Prize
- 2021 Sujit Sivasundaram for Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution and empire
- 2022 Alia Trabucco Zerán for When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold
- 2023 Nandini Das for Courting India: England, Mughal India and Origins of Empire
- 2024 Sudharshan SG for The Enigma Probe: Unravelling the Unknown
References
- ^ "British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding: past winners". The British Academy. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- "Shortlist announced for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021". The British Academy. 7 September 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- "Celebrated British author Karen Armstrong wins inaugural prize for her contribution to global interfaith understanding". British Academy. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- "Professor Jonathan D Jansen awarded 2014 Nayef Al-Rodan Prize for Transcultural Understanding". British Academy. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- "Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding Awarded to Neil MacGregor". British Academy. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- "2016 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding awarded to Professor Carole Hillenbrand". British Academy. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- "Professor Timothy Garton Ash scoops prestigious Al-Rodhan book prize". 31 October 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- "Kapka Kassabova Named 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize Winner". 3 November 2018. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- "'A Fistful of Shells' wins 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize". Books+Publishing. 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
- "'Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands' wins Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize". Books+Publishing. 2020-10-28. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- "'Waves Across the South' wins British Academy Book Prize". Books+Publishing. 2021-10-28. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- "When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zerán wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2022". The British Academy. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2023.