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Lionel Gelber Prize 2015

The 2015 Lionel Gelber Prize went to The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy. 5 books made the shortlist.

Winner

  1. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Unionsource (opens in a new tab)

Shortlist

  1. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New Chinasource (opens in a new tab)
  2. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israelsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Good War: Why We Couldn't Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistansource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp Davidsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Lionel Gelber Prize

Lionel Gelber Prize (Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto), 2006-2025: winner plus the other shortlisted books (level Shortlist), five books per year. Year is the prize year as the body labels it (its <year>-gelber-prize pages); the prize is announced in spring for books published in the previous year. One category, labelled International Affairs. Source: the body's per-year pages on gelber.munkschool.utoronto.ca, one page per year. The pages omit a few author names (2007 Nixon in China, 2008 The Wilsonian Moment, 2013 Iron Curtain; 2018 winner named only in the blurb), filled from the books themselves (Margaret MacMillan, Erez Manela, Anne Applebaum). Obvious typos on the pages were fixed (e.g. 'Zakaria Fareed', 'Central America' for Central Asia in Descent into Chaos, 'Weapns', 'Popwer', Iron Curtain dated 1944-1956) and honorifics dropped (Sir). Wikipedia lists winners only and was used only as a cross-check. No longlist is published.

Organization: Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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