The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2023 shortlist event

The authors shortlisted for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding took part in this special in-person and online event on 30 October 2023, organised in partnership with the London Review Bookshop. Awarded annually since 2013, the British Academy’s £25,000 non-fiction book prize recognises work that searches for truth and reason in difficult places and shines a light on the connections and divisions that shape cultural identity worldwide. Join the shortlisted authors for an exploration of urgent and globally significant topics. This event was chaired by the award-winning journalist Rosie Goldsmith.

The 2023 shortlist:
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan (Faber & Faber)
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das (Bloomsbury Publishing)
The Violence of Colonial Photography by Daniel Foliard (Manchester University Press)
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra (Allen Lane / Penguin Books)
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo (Hodder & Stoughton)
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living by Dimitris Xygalatas (Profile Books)

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