Date: Monday 2 December 2020
Time: 7pm - 8pm
Platform: Zoom

You are warmly invited to join us for the announcement of the 2020 PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize winner.

The 2020 shortlist is:

    - Anita Anand, The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and the Raj (Simon & Schuster)  
    - Julia Blackburn, Time Song: Searching for Doggerland (Jonathan Cape)  
    - Hazel Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso)  
    - Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (Allen  Lane)  
    - Caroline Moorhead, A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism (Chatto & Windus)  
    - Thomas Penn, The Brothers York: An English Tragedy (Allen Lane)  
    - Roel Sterckx, Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding (Pelican)  

This year’s judging panel for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize is chaired by Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford. He is joined by Dr John Gallagher, Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Leeds, and Rebecca Rideal, historian, broadcaster and director of history festival HistFest.  

The prize announcement will be followed by a discussion with the winner and judges.

The PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize of £2,000 is awarded annually for a non-fiction book of specifically historical content. Entrants are to be books of high literary merit – that is, not primarily written for the academic market – and can cover all historical periods. Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the 1960s and 1970s. On her death in 1999 she bequeathed £100,000 to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name.