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MONTREAL - Guardian journalist Tania Branigan's debut book about China's deadly Cultural Revolution has won the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize.
Branigan won the $75,000 (U.S.) prize for her book Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution.
Jurors describe Branigan’s book as a ‘haunting’ account of the trauma endured by those who survived Mao Zedong’s power grab in the mid-20th century
Tania Branigan, James Morton Turner and Kate Cooper are under consideration for the annual US$75,000 prize administered by McGill University
Kate Cooper is a historian of the ancient world whose work has changed how we see the rise of Christianity. Born in Washington, DC, Kate is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her books include Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women, The Fall of the Roman Household, and Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s