The authors shortlisted for the 2022 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding took part in this special in-person and online event on 24 October 2022, 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 six shortlisted authors for an exploration of urgent and globally significant topics. This event was chaired by the award-winning journalist Rosie Goldsmith.
The 2022 shortlist:
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness, by Katie Booth
Aftermath: Life in the Fall-out of the Third Reich, Harald Jähner
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village, Marit Kapla
Horizons: A Global History of Science, James Poskett
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold, Alia Trabucco Zerán
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China, Jing Tsu
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