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Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize has been announced by jury chair Janice Gross Stein. The five titles – selected by Stein (the Belzberg professor of conflict and global affairs at the University of ... Read More »

February 14, 2018 | Filed under: Awards

Janice Gross Stein leads 2018 Lionel Gelber jury

By Dory Cerny

The jury for the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize, which recognizes the world's best English-language non-fiction book on foreign affairs, has been announced. Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg professor of conflict and global affairs at the University ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Awards

Robert F. Worth wins Lionel Gelber Prize

By Sue Carter

American journalist Robert F. Worth has won the Lionel Gelber Prize for A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The $15,000 annual award, presented to ... Read More »

February 28, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize jury announced

By Becky Robertson

The jury for this year's Lionel Gelber Prize has been announced. Chaired by journalist and Munk School senior fellow John Stackhouse‚ the jury is comprised of Scott Shane‚ the prize's 2016 winner; Allison Stranger‚ Middlebury College's ... Read More »

January 4, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Scott Shane wins Munk School’s Lionel Gelber Prize

By Becky Robertson

Washington-based New York Times reporter Scott Shane has been named winner of the 2016 Lionel Gelber Prize for Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone (Tim Duggan Books). Administered by ... Read More »

March 1, 2016 | Filed under: Book news

Guardians author Susan Pedersen among finalists for Gelber Prize

By Becky Robertson

The finalists for this year's Lionel Gelber Prize were announced on Feb. 2. The shortlist includes books by Canadian historian and professor Susan Pedersen, and New York Times national security reporter Scott Shane. Founded in ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

John Stackhouse, Anne Applebaum named Lionel Gelber Prize jurors

By Julie Baldassi

A five-member jury has been announced for the 25th annual Lionel Gelber Prize, the $15,000 prize for best English-language non-fiction book on foreign affairs. The international jurors, selected by jury chair William Thorsell, are: Anne Applebaum, ... Read More »

November 18, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Lionel Gelber Prize longlist announced

By Emma Renda

Three Canadian authors are on the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize longlist for English-language non-fiction on foreign affairs. Ronald J. Diebert, a professor at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and an expert in ... Read More »

January 28, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Taschen opens “shop within a shop” inside Art Gallery of Ontario

By Sue Carter

Taschen Books has opened a mini-boutique, the first of its kind in Canada, inside the Art Gallery of Ontario. Modelled after a similar set-up at the Chicago Institute of Art, the branded "shop within a ... Read More »

December 19, 2013 | Filed under: Book news

Obama’s half-brother to pen memoir, Frankenstein movie writers call monster Frankenstein, and more

By Becky Robertson

Obama's half-brother to publish memoir documenting childhood abuse I, Frankenstein movie incorrectly refers to monster as Frankenstein Italian government to instate 19 per cent book tax rebate Detroit Write A House awards vacant houses to ... Read More »

December 19, 2013 | Filed under: Book links

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