British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
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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.{{cite web |title=British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding: past winners |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/british-academy-book-prize-global-cultural-understanding/past-winners/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=1 June 2023 |language=en}}
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.{{cite web |title=Shortlist announced for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021 |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/shortlist-announced-for-the-british-academy-book-prize-for-global-cultural-understanding-2021/ |website=The British Academy |date=7 September 2021 |access-date=1 June 2023 |language=en}}
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"{{cite web|title=Celebrated British author Karen Armstrong wins inaugural prize for her contribution to global interfaith understanding|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/celebrated-british-author-karen-armstrong-wins-inaugural-prize-her-contribution-global|website=British Academy|accessdate=23 July 2017|date=4 July 2013}}
- 2014 Jonathan Jansen, University of the Free State, South Africa, for his book Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past (2009){{cite web|title=Professor Jonathan D Jansen awarded 2014 Nayef Al-Rodan Prize for Transcultural Understanding|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/professor-jonathan-d-jansen-awarded-2014-nayef-al-rodan-prize-transcultural-understanding|website=British Academy|accessdate=23 July 2017|date=1 October 2014}}
- 2015 Neil MacGregor, British Museum, for his books A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010) and Germany: Memories Of A Nation (2014){{cite web|title=Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding Awarded to Neil MacGregor|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/nayef-al-rodhan-prize-transcultural-understanding-awarded-neil-macgregor|website=British Academy|accessdate=23 July 2017|date=1 December 2015}}
- 2016 Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh, for her book Islam: A New Historical Introduction (2015).{{cite web|title=2016 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding awarded to Professor Carole Hillenbrand|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/2016-nayef-al-rodhan-prize-transcultural-understanding-awarded-professor-carole-hillenbrand|website=British Academy|accessdate=23 July 2017|date=1 November 2016}}
=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).{{cite web|title= Professor Timothy Garton Ash scoops prestigious Al-Rodhan book prize|url= https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/professor-timothy-garton-ash-scoops-prestigious-al-rodhan-book-prize|accessdate=24 January 2018|date=31 October 2017}}
- 2018 Kapka Kassabova for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe.{{cite web|title= Kapka Kassabova Named 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize Winner|url= https://publishingperspectives.com/2018/11/kapka-kassabova-named-2018-nayef-al-rodhan-prize-winner/|accessdate=3 November 2018|date=3 November 2018}}
- 2019 Toby Green for his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution.{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/10/31/141849/a-fistful-of-shells-wins-2019-nayef-al-rodhan-prize/|title='A Fistful of Shells' wins 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize|last=|first=|date=2019-10-31|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-11-08}}
- 2020 Hazel V. Carby for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-10-28|title='Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands' wins Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/10/28/158665/imperial-intimacies-a-tale-of-two-islands-wins-nayef-al-rodhan-prize/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
=British Academy Book Prize=
- 2021 Sujit Sivasundaram for Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution and empire{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-10-28|title='Waves Across the South' wins British Academy Book Prize|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/10/28/195775/waves-across-the-south-a-new-history-of-revolution-and-empire-wins-british-academy-prize/|access-date=2021-11-03|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- 2022 Alia Trabucco Zerán for When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold{{cite web |title=When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zerán wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2022 |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/when-women-kill-four-crimes-retold-by-alia-trabucco-zeran-wins-british-academy-book-prize/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=1 June 2023 |language=en |date=26 October 2022}}
- 2023 Nandini Das for Courting India: England, Mughal India and Origins of Empire
- 2024 Ross Perlin for Language City: The Fight To Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues{{Cite news |last=Cooper-Fiske |first=Casey |date=2024-10-22 |title=Book about preserving endangered languages wins British Academy Book Prize 2024 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/medicine-new-york-the-new-york-times-the-guardian-england-b2633737.html |work=The Independent}}