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2025 - 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Sergey Radchenko for To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power

2025 - 2025 Gelber Prize Shortlist Press Release

2025 - Expert international jury announced for the 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize

2024 - 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Timothy Garton Ash for Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

2024 - Announcing the shortlist for the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize

2024 - Expert international jury announced for the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize

2023 - Announcing the shortlist for the 2023 Lionel Gelber Prize

2023 - Expert international jury announced for the 2023 Lionel Gelber Prize

2023 - Lionel Gelber Prize value increases to $50,000

2022 - 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize Winner Announced

2022 - 2022 Lionel Gelber Shortlist Announced

2022 - 2022 Jury Announcement

2022 - Call for Submissions – 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize

2021 - 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Winner Announced

2021 - 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist Announced

2021 - Janice Stein Chairs International Jury for the 31st Annual Lionel Gelber Prize

2021 - Call for Submissions for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize

2020 - The Light That Failed: A Reckoning Wins 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize

2020 - 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist Announced

2020 - Janice Stein Chairs International Jury for the 30th Annual Awarding of the Lionel Gelber Prize

2019 - 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize Winner Announced

2019 - 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist Announced

2019 - Jury Announced for the 29th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize

- Call for Books- 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize

2018 - 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize Winner Announced

2018 - 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist Announced

2018 - Jury Announced for the 28th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize

2018 - Call for Books – 2018

2017 - Robert F. Worth’s Rage for Order Wins the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize

2017 - Shortlist Announced for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize

2017 - Jury Announced for the 27th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize

2017 - Call for Books – 2017

2016 - Scott Shane Wins the 2016 Lionel Gelber Prize for Objective Troy

2016 - Jury Announced for the 26th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize

2015 - Chair William Thorsell Gathers International Colleagues to Form 25th Lionel Gelber Prize Jury

2015 - Lionel Gelber Prize Explores 25 Years of Global Change to Mark its 25th Anniversary

2015 - Lionel Gelber Prize Announces 25th Anniversary Winner

2014 - The 2014 Gelber Prize Shortlist Reveals Year’s Best Foreign Affairs Books Worldwide

2014 - The 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize Longlist: Important Global Works for a World of Readers

2014 - Noted International Thinkers Join William Thorsell to Form the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize Jury

2014 - The Blood Telegram Wins the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize

2013 - Five Books Advance to the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

2013 - Twelve Books That Will Change the Way You Think About International Affairs: The Lionel Gelber Prize Longlist

2013 - Jury Announced for the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize

2013 - Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats Takes the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize

2012 - Ezra F. Vogel Wins the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize

2012 - Lionel Gelber Prize Announces Its Shortlist

2012 - The 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize Longlist: Including Books on China’s Rise, the Crisis in Islam, and Cold War Confrontation

2012 - Jury Announced for the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize

2011 - Shelagh D. Grant Wins the 2011 Lionel Gelber Prize

2011 - The Lionel Gelber Prize Announces its Shortlist for the World’s Best Book on Global Affairs

2011 - Jury Announced for the 2011 Lionel Gelber Prize

2010 - Jay Taylor Wins 2010 Lionel Gelber Prize for Book on Chiang Kai-shek

2009 - Lawrence Freedman’s A Choice of Enemies Wins 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize

2008 - Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion wins 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize

2007 - Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower wins 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize for Non-fiction

1997 - Announcing the 1997 Winner of The Lionel Gelber Prize

1993 - Impassioned Book Honoured with $50,000 Prize

1990 - Winner of Premier Lionel Gelber ($50,000 CDN) Literary Prize Announced

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