Lionel Gelber Prize jury chair, William Thorsell says the short listed books deepen public debate on significant international issues.Lionel Gelber Prize jury chair, William Thorsell says the short listed books deepen public debate on significant international issues.

Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist highlights non-fiction on foreign affairs

Nominated books highlights non-fiction on foreign affairs

“Five books offering fresh perspectives from the past and a deeper understanding of current global issues” are the way jury chair William Thorsell described the contenders shortlisted for this year’s $15,000 Lionel Gelber Prize celebrating English-language non-fiction from around the world that focuses on foreign affairs and deepens public debate on significant international issues.

The shortlist, announced Tuesday, includes:

  • Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum (Washington, DC and Poland), published by Signal Editions
  • The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics by Paul Bracken (Connecticut), published by Times Books
  • Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland (New York, New York), published by Doubleday Canada and The Penguin Press
  • Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World by Kwasi Kwarteng (London, England), published by Public Affairs, and
  • From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia by Pankaj Mishra (London, England), published by Doubleday Canada and Farrar, Straus & Giroux
  • The Prize, established in 1989 in memory of Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber (1907–1989), will be handed out March 25.

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