Lionel Gelber Prize
English literary award
Award
Lionel Gelber Prize Awarded for "the world’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues." Presented by Lionel Gelber Prize Board Reward(s) CA$ 50,000First awarded 1990
The Lionel Gelber Prize [ 1] is a literary award for English non-fiction books on foreign policy .[ 2] Founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber, the prize honors "the world’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues."[ 3] A prize of CA$50,000 , is awarded to the winner. The award is presented annually by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto .
Recipients are judged by an international jury of experts. In 1999, The Economist called the award "the world's most important award for non-fiction".[ 4] Past winners have included, Lawrence Wright , Jonathan Spence , David McCullough , Kanan Makiya , Michael Ignatieff , Eric Hobsbawm , Robert Kinloch Massie , Adam Hochschild (a two-time winner), Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky , Walter Russell Mead , Chrystia Freeland , and Steve Coll .
Lionel Gelber
Lionel Gelber was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford in 1938. During this time he wrote The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship: a Study of World Politics 1898 to 1906 ,[ 5] which examined the “rise of American global power, with all the risk, hope and complexity such a geopolitical shift entailed at the beginning of the 20th Century.”[ 5] He followed this work with Peace by Power: The Plain Man’s Guide to the Key Issues of the War and the Post-War World in 1942 and America in Britain’s Place in 1961 .[ 5] During Gelber's 82 years as an author, scholar, historian, and diplomat, he wrote eight books and many articles on foreign relations.[ 5] Gelber studied at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto before winning the Rhodes scholarship and beginning his studies at Balliol College at Oxford.[ 5] In 1989, the Lionel Gelber prize was created to honor works published in Gelber's field.[ 5]
List of award winners
1990: The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence .
1991: Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of Warlord States by Dorothy V. Jones.
1992: Truman by David McCullough .
1993: Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World by Kanan Makiya .
1994: Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism by Michael Ignatieff .
1995: Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm .
1996: Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev by Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov
1997: Aftermath: The Remnants of War by Donovan Webster .
1998: Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa In the Apartheid Years by Robert Kinloch Massie .
1999: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism In Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild .
2000: A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History by Patrick Tyler .
2001: John Maynard Keynes, Fighting for Britain 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky .
2002: Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead .
2003: America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
2004: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll .[ 6]
2006: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild .
2007: The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright .
2008: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier .
2009: A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East by Lawrence Freedman .
2010: The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor .[ 7]
2011: Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh Grant.[ 8]
2012: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel .[ 9] [ 10]
2013: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland .[ 11] [ 12]
2014: The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass .[ 13]
2015: The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy [ 14]
2016: Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of the Drone by Scott Shane [ 15]
2017: A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS by Robert F. Worth published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2018: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum published by Penguin Random House
2019: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze published by Penguin Random House [ 16]
2020: The Light that Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes [ 17]
2021: Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis
2022: The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian [ 18]
2023: Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. Shirk [ 19]
2024: Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash [ 20]
References
^ "The Lionel Gelber Prize | The Munk School" . munkschool.utoronto.ca . Retrieved 2024-10-15 .
^ "The Lionel Gelber Prize" . The Munk School . Retrieved 2024-10-21 .
^ "About the Prize" . The Lionel Gelber Prize - The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy . Retrieved 2020-11-14 .
^ "The devil inside" . The Economist . September 9, 1999. Retrieved March 24, 2024 .
^ a b c d e f "Bibliography" . The Lionel Gelber Prize - The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy . Retrieved 2023-10-14 .
^ "HONORS" . 3 March 2005 – via washingtonpost.com.
^ "The Generalissimo — Jay Taylor - Harvard University Press" .
^ Medley, Mark (March 1, 2011). "Shelagh D. Grant wins Lionel Gelber Prize for Polar Imperative" . National Post . Retrieved April 29, 2022 .
^ "Vogel wins Gelber Prize for book" . The Harvard Gazette . 27 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2022-04-17. Retrieved April 29, 2022 .
^ "Book examining China's transformation wins $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize" . National Post . February 27, 2012. Retrieved April 29, 2022 .
^ Stuster, J. Dana (March 25, 2013). "The 2013 Gelber Prize winner: Chrystia Freeland's 'Plutocrats' " . Foreign Policy . Archived from the original on 2014-11-23. Retrieved April 28, 2022 .
^ Medley, Mark (February 4, 2013). "Lionel Gelber Prize longlist revealed" . National Post . Archived from the original on February 4, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 2014 .
^ " 'The Blood Telegram' wins the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize" . CTV News . March 31, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2022 .
^ "Lionel Gelber Prize Announces 25th Anniversary Winner" .
^ Prize, The Lionel Gelber. "Scott Shane Wins the 2016 Lionel Gelber Prize for Objective Troy" .
^ "Adam Tooze Wins the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize for Crashed; How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World" (PDF) . The Lionel Gelber Prize . February 26, 2019. Retrieved March 31, 2019 .
^ Year 2020 Gelber Prize Winner: The Light that Failed: A Reckoning. Authors: Ivan Krastev Stephen Holmes//Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 2020
^ Berki, Attila (April 12, 2022). "Winner of the 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize announced" . Quill & Quire . Retrieved April 28, 2022 .
^ Drudi, Cassandra (April 10, 2023). "Susan L. Shirk wins 2023 Lionel Gelber Prize" . Quill & Quire . Retrieved June 25, 2023 .
^ "2024 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Timothy Garton Ash for Homelands: A Personal History of Europe" . newswire.ca . March 6, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
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