Finalists have been unveiled for the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University in Montreal. The winner will be named November 14, with two runners-up each receiving $10,000. This year's finalists are:
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook (Oxford University Press)
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (Norton)
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell (Knopf)
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The shortlist has been released for the 2019 JCB Prize for Literature, which was established last year to celebrate "distinguished writing by Indian authors" working in English or translated fiction, the Bookseller reported. The prize money is 25 lakh (about $35,525). If the winning work is a translation, the translator receives an additional 10 lakh (approximately $14,115). The winner will be announced November 2. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Ib's Endless Search for Satisfaction by Roshan Ali
The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
A Lonely Harvest by Perumal Murugan, translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
Trial by Silence by Perumal Murugan, translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
My Father's Garden by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
There's Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari, translated by Arunava Sinha