Date: Tuesday 7 December 2021
Time: 7.30-8.30pm  
Online via: Zoom

** Registrations close 5.00pm Tuesday 7 December **

You are warmly invited to join us for the announcement of the 2021 PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize winner.

The 2021 shortlist is:

    Barbara Demick, Eat the Buddha (Granta Books)
    Chris Gosden, The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present (Viking)
    Helen McCarthy, Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood (Bloomsbury)
    Sinclair McKay, Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness (Viking)
    Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins)
    Ben Wilson, Metropolis (Jonathan Cape)
    Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Bloomsbury)

This year’s judging panel for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 is chaired by academic, critic and broadcaster Professor Shahidha Bari. She is joined by author Dr Wanda Wyporska and author and Managing Editor of Prospect, Sameer Rahim.

Professor Shahidha Bari said:

‘There is something for everyone in this year’s shortlist for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. It’s a selection of books that is daring in its range: from exceptionally rigorous histories of magic, war and working mothers, to illuminating new studies of cities, seas and our neanderthal ancestors. The judges were deeply impressed by these ambitious and searching books.’

The prize announcement will be followed by a discussion with the winner and judges. A link to join the event via Zoom will be sent on Tuesday 7 December.

We look forward to seeing you there!