Lionel Gelber Prize

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Lionel Gelber Prize
Awarded for"the world's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues."
Presented byLionel Gelber Prize Board
Reward(s) CA$50,000
First awarded1990

The Lionel Gelber Prize [1] is a literary award for English non-fiction books on foreign policy. [2] Founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber, the prize honors "the world's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues." [3] A prize of CA$50,000, is awarded to the winner. The award is presented annually by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

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Recipients are judged by an international jury of experts. In 1999, The Economist called the award "the world's most important award for non-fiction". [4] Past winners have included, Lawrence Wright, Jonathan Spence, David McCullough, Kanan Makiya, Michael Ignatieff, Eric Hobsbawm, Robert Kinloch Massie, Adam Hochschild (a two-time winner), Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, Walter Russell Mead, Chrystia Freeland, and Steve Coll.

Lionel Gelber

Lionel Gelber was a Canadian author, scholar, historian, and diplomat. During his career, he wrote eight books and many articles on foreign relations, including The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship: a Study of World Politics 1898 to 1906, [5] which examined the "rise of American global power, with all the risk, hope and complexity such a geopolitical shift entailed at the beginning of the 20th Century." [5] He followed this work with Peace by Power: The Plain Man's Guide to the Key Issues of the War and the Post-War World in 1942 and America in Britain's Place in 1961. [5] Gelber studied at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto before winning the Rhodes Scholarship and beginning his studies at Balliol College, Oxford. [5] In 1989, the Lionel Gelber prize was created to honor works published in Gelber's field. [5]

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