The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding winner's announcement 2023

Join us to discover the winner of the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

Awarded annually since 2013, the British Academy’s £25,000 non-fiction book prize recognises work that searches for truth and reason in difficult places, and shines a light on the connections and divisions that shape cultural identity worldwide.

The six shortlisted books are: 

• Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
• Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das
• The Violence of Colonial Photography by Daniel Foliard
• Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
• Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
• Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living by Dimitris Xygalatas

You can find out more about the shortlisted books, and order a copy, via the London Review Bookshop.

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