history prize 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes American Historian Camilla Townsend has won the Cundill History Prize 2020 for Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs. The $75,000 prize is one of the elite literary awards that recognize works on history. Camilla’s Fifth Sun was competing with William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, and Vincent […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The jury of the prestigious Cundill History Prize has announced the finalists for 2020. In the official tweet, the international prize team said that they will declare the winner on December 03. The three finalists include Vincent Brown (Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War), William Dalrymple (The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of