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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.

List of recipients
Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding2013 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" • 2014 Jonathan Jansen, University of the Free State, South Africa, for his book Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past (2009) • 2015 Neil MacGregor, British Museum, for his books A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010) and Germany: Memories Of A Nation (2014) • 2016 Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh, for her book Islam: A New Historical Introduction (2015) Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding2017 Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, for his book Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World (2016) • 2018 Kapka Kassabova for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe2019 Toby Green for his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution2020 Hazel V. Carby for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands British Academy Book Prize2021 Sujit Sivasundaram for Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire2022 Alia Trabucco Zerán for When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold2023 Nandini Das for Courting India: England, Mughal India and Origins of Empire2024 Ross Perlin for Language City: The Fight To Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues2025 Sunil Amrith for The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years ==References==
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