The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is a prize granted by the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...

for "outstanding scholarly contributions to global cultural understanding". The prize is £25,000. It was created in 2013 as the

Nayef Al-Rodhan Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan ( ar, نايف الروضان; born 1959) is a Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author. He is an honorary fellow of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, and senior fellow ...

Prize for Transcultural Understanding and then the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, before becoming the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in 2021.

List of recipients

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding

* 2013

Karen Armstrong Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and ...

, "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 Robert Neil MacGregor (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the ''Burlington Magazine'' from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, Director of th ...

, British Museum, for his books ''A History of the World in 100 Objects'' (2010) and '' Germany: Memories Of A Nation'' (2014) * 2016

Carole Hillenbrand Carole Hillenbrand, (born 1943), is a British Islamic scholar who is Emerita Professor in Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews. She is the Vice-President of the British ...

, University of Edinburgh, for her book ''Islam: A New Historical Introduction'' (2015).

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

* 2017

Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a spe ...

, 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 Europe''. * 2019 Toby Green for his book ''A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution''. *2020 Hazel V. Carby for her book ''Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands''

British Academy Book Prize

*2021 Sujit Sivasundaram for ''Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution and empire'' * 2022

Alia Trabucco Zerán Alia Trabucco Zerán (born 26 August 1983) is a Chilean writer. She has an MFA in creative writing in Spanish from New York University and a PhD in Spanish and Latin American studies from University College London. Her debut novel ''La Resta'' ('' ...

for ''When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold'' * 2023

References

{{reflist Book Prize Awards established in 2013 2013 establishments in the United Kingdom British non-fiction literary awards Annual events in the United Kingdom