In Montreal last week, the British historian of Russia Daniel Beer
received the 2017 Cundill Prize for
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars. It reads like a Russian novel, says the citation -- and with a topic like that you can see why it might -- and has been nominated for several book prizes in Britain.
Also nominated were Christopher Goscha, who teaches at UQAM in Montreal, for
Vietnam: A New History, and American historian Walter Scheidel, for
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
The Cundill Prize is $75,000.
