British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

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.^[1]

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,^[1] before becoming the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in 2021.^[2]

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"^[3]
• 2014 Jonathan Jansen, University of the Free State, South Africa, for his book Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past (2009)^[4]
• 2015 Neil MacGregor, British Museum, for his books A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010) and Germany: Memories Of A Nation (2014)^[5]
• 2016 Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh, for her book Islam: A New Historical Introduction (2015).^[6]

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).^[7]
• 2018 Kapka Kassabova for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe.^[8]
• 2019 Toby Green for his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution.^[9]
• 2020 Hazel V. Carby for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands^[10]

British Academy Book Prize

• 2021 Sujit Sivasundaram for Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution and empire^[11]
• 2022 Alia Trabucco Zerán for When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold^[12]
• 2023 Nandini Das for Courting India: England, Mughal India and Origins of Empire

References

1. "British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding: past winners". The British Academy. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
2. "Shortlist announced for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021". The British Academy. 7 September 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
3. "Celebrated British author Karen Armstrong wins inaugural prize for her contribution to global interfaith understanding". British Academy. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
4. "Professor Jonathan D Jansen awarded 2014 Nayef Al-Rodan Prize for Transcultural Understanding". British Academy. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
5. "Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding Awarded to Neil MacGregor". British Academy. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
6. "2016 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding awarded to Professor Carole Hillenbrand". British Academy. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
7. "Professor Timothy Garton Ash scoops prestigious Al-Rodhan book prize". 31 October 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
8. "Kapka Kassabova Named 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize Winner". 3 November 2018. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
9. "'A Fistful of Shells' wins 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize". Books+Publishing. 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
10. "'Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands' wins Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize". Books+Publishing. 2020-10-28. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
11. "'Waves Across the South' wins British Academy Book Prize". Books+Publishing. 2021-10-28. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
12. "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.