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.^[1]

It was created in 2013 as the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding and then the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding,^[1] before becoming the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in 2021.^[2]

List of recipients

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding

• 2013 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"^[3]
• 2014 Jonathan Jansen, University of the Free State, South Africa, for his book Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past (2009)^[4]
• 2015 Neil MacGregor, British Museum, for his books A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010) and Germany: Memories Of A Nation (2014)^[5]
• 2016 Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh, for her book Islam: A New Historical Introduction (2015).^[6]

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

• 2017 Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, for his book "Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World" (2016).^[7]
• 2018 Kapka Kassabova for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe.^[8]
• 2019 Toby Green for his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution.^[9]
• 2020 Hazel V. Carby for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands^[10]

British Academy Book Prize

• 2021 Sujit Sivasundaram for Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution and empire^[11]
• 2022 Alia Trabucco Zerán for When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold^[12]
• 2023 Nandini Das for Courting India: England, Mughal India and Origins of Empire
• 2024 Ross Perlin for Language City: The Fight To Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues^[13]