Media advisory: Winner of 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature to be announced November 20

Winning title for the world's most lucrative award for historical writing to be revealed this week

MONTREAL, Nov. 19, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - McGill University's Faculty of Arts will announce on Wednesday, November 20, 2013, at 10:00 p.m. the winning title for the 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature from 116 titles from across the globe. The prize, now in its sixth year, features a $75,000 U.S. grand prize - making the Cundill Prize the world's most lucrative international award for a nonfiction book.

The winner will be selected from these finalists:

Anne Applebaum - Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Christopher Clark - The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War In 1914
Fredrik Logevall - Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

To learn who wins the 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, visit http://www.cundillprize.com/2013winner/ at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 20, 2013.

To read more about these finalists in the McGill Reporter:
Anne Applebaum: bit.ly/1b016Qa
Fredrik Logevall: bit.ly/1dlDNBK
Christopher Clark: bit.ly/1dxyUpn

For more about the Cundill Prize: bit.ly/bNu2tT

SOURCE: McGill University

To arrange an interview with the 2013 Cundill winner, contact:
Cynthia Lee
Media Relations, McGill University
514 398-6754
514 793-6753 (cell.)
[email protected]