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全球奖金最高的历史著作奖“坎迪尔奖”揭晓
第10届“麦吉尔大学坎迪尔历史奖(The Cundill History Prize of McGill)”(以下简称“坎迪尔奖”)于当地时间11月16日21点30分(北京时间11月17日10点30分)在加拿大东部城市蒙特利尔揭晓。丹尼尔·比尔(Daniel Beer)的《死者之屋:沙皇统治下的西伯利亚流放》(The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars)拔得头筹,荣获本次评选的大奖(Grand Prize),赢得奖金75000美元(约合人民币49.9万元)。同时入围决赛的另两部作品——克里斯多夫·戈查(Christopher Goscha)的《新越南史》(Vietnam: A New History)和沃特·沙依斗(Walter Scheidel)的《大调平器:从石器时期到二十一世纪的暴力与不平等历史》(The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-first Century)获得优秀奖(Recognition of Excellence Prizes),每位作者获奖金10000美元(约合人民币6.7万元)。

本次大奖得主丹尼尔・比尔是英国伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院历史系高级讲师(相当于北美大学体制的副教授),专长于俄国现代史。这次获奖的《死者之屋》,书名的灵感来自于俄国小说家陀思妥耶夫斯基的《死屋手记》。依作者之见,这是最早书写西伯利亚政治流放犯的作品之一。丹尼尔・比尔运用藏于莫斯科、圣彼得堡以及西伯利亚城市的大批珍贵档案,细述从十九世纪初至俄国十月革命爆发期间西伯利亚如何转变成令俄国人民闻之丧胆的流放地——一座“没有天花板的巨大监狱”。在这百年间,沙皇政府流放了超过一百万名的囚犯及其家属,起初只针对重犯,接着小偷、妓女、乞丐等都被送往西伯利亚,最后政治异议分子也遭放逐。本书生动再现了流放西伯利亚这个不人道刑罚体制的残酷现实、流放者的悲惨命运,以及西伯利亚流放体制的成败如何牵动帝俄政局。





【附】“坎迪尔奖”历年的获奖作品
2017
年度大奖
Beer, Daniel. 2017. The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
优秀奖
Goscha, Christopher E. 2016. Vietnam: A New History. New York: Basic Books.
Scheidel, Walter. 2017. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
2016
年度大奖
Laqueur, Thomas Walter. 2015. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
优秀奖
Wootton, David. 2015. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. London: Allen Lane, An Imprint of Penguin Books.
Wulf, Andrea. 2015. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
2015
年度大奖
Pedersen, Susan. 2015. The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
优秀奖
Beckert, Sven. 2014. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Stangneth, Bettina. 2014. Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
2014
年度大奖
Bass, Gary Jonathan. 2013. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide. New York: Alfred A Knopf.
优秀奖
Overy, R. J., and R. J. Overy. 2014. The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945. London: Penguin.
Van Reybrouck, David, and Sam Garrett. 2014. Congo: The Epic History of A People. New York, NY: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
2013
年度大奖
Applebaum, Anne. 2013. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. New York: Anchor Books, A Division of Random House, Inc.
优秀奖
Clark, Christopher M. 2013. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York, NY: Harper.
Logevall, Fredrik. 2012. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. New York: Random House.
2012
年度大奖
Platt, Stephen R. 2012. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
优秀奖
Pinker, Steven. 2011. The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes. London: Allen Lane.
Preston, Andrew. 2012. Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy. New York: Anchor Books.
2011
年度大奖
Luzzatto, Sergio, and Frederika Randall. 2011. Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age. New York: Picador.
优秀奖
Jasanoff, Maya. 2011. Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Snyder, Timothy. 2010. Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books.
2010
年度大奖
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. 2009. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. London, England: Allen Lane.
优秀奖
Casale, Giancarlo. 2010. The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Miller, Marla R. 2010. Betsy Ross and the Making of America. New York: Henry Holt.
2009
年度大奖
Jardine, Lisa. 2008. Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory. London: Harper Press.
优秀奖
Fischer, David Hackett. 2008. Champlain’s Dream. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Fritzsche, Peter. 2008. Life and Death in the Third Reich. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (与上一年度重复)
2008
年度大奖
Schwartz, Stuart B. 2008. All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World. New Haven: Yale University Press.
优秀奖
Cook, Harold John. 2007. Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press.
Fritzsche, Peter. 2008. Life and Death in the Third Reich. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.





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