British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding


The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is a prize granted by the British Academy for "outstanding scholarly contributions to global cultural understanding". The prize is £25,000.
It was created in 2013 as the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding and then the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, before becoming the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in 2021.

List of recipients

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding

2013 Karen Armstrong, "in recognition of her body of work that has made a significant contribution to understanding the elements of overlap and commonality in different cultures and religions"2014 Jonathan Jansen, University of the Free State, South Africa, for his book Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past 2015 Neil MacGregor, British Museum, for his books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories Of A Nation 2016 Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh, for her book ''Islam: A New Historical Introduction''

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

2017 Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, for his book Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World 2018 Kapka Kassabova for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe2019 Toby Green for his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
  • 2020 Hazel V. Carby for her book ''Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands''

British Academy Book Prize