British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding unveils shortlist of six

Likewise up for the prize are Ed Conway for Material World: A Considerable Tale of Our Past and Future (WH Allen); The Secret Lives of Numbers: An International Background of Math & Its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell (Viking); Language City: The Battle to Preserve Endangered Mom Tongues by Ross Perlin (Grove Press UK) and Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Required to Decolonise Health Care by Annabel Sowemimo (Profile Books/Wellcome Collection).

The winner of the 2024 prize will certainly be announced at an honor ceremony on Tuesday 22nd October. Each of the shortlisted writers will certainly obtain ₤ 1,000. The 2023 winner was Nandini Das for Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (Bloomsbury).

Six publications have been shortlisted for the ₤ 25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Recognizing, including Smoke and Powders: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray) and The Tame and the Wild: People and Pets after 1492 by Marcy Norton (Harvard College Press).

Tripp claimed: “This year we were considerably excited by the quality of composing and the deepness of research study, yet also by the sizes our authors are prepared to head to highlight urgent international issues and to honour those who have actually made a distinction. At once when it feels as if global cultural understanding is somewhat doing not have, we really hope the British Academy Book Reward and these 6 publications will figure in changing the method we regard our shared world.”

The 2024 evaluating panel is comprised of Teacher Charles Tripp (chair), teacher Rebecca Earle, food chronicler and teacher of Background at the College of Warwick; the previous BBC foreign reporter Bridget Kendall; reporter and broadcaster Ritula Shah; and teacher of relative religion and viewpoint at Lancaster College, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad.

Now in its 12th year, the international book reward incentives and commemorates “ground-breaking jobs of non-fiction that have made an exceptional payment to the general public understanding of world societies and their communications, and are based in top quality and strenuous study”.