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The Lionel Gelber Prize - The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
The Lionel Gelber Prize – The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • About the Prize
    • Rules for Eligibility
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  • About the Prize
    • Rules for Eligibility
    • Submission Process
    • Sponsor
    • Press Room
  • Lionel Gelber Biography
  • 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize
  • Prize by Years
  • Multimedia

1997

Prize By Years

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Aftermath: The Remnants of War
Donovan Webster
Published by Pantheon Books
The Shortlist

The other shortlisted books for this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize were as follows:

  • Jeffery M. Paige
    Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
  • Jonathan F. Vance
    Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War
  • Patti Waldmeir
    Anatomy of a Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa
  • Yaron Ezrahi
    Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel
Jurors
Janice Gross Stein
Jury Chair (Toronto, CA)
Charles A. Kupchan
USA
Phillip Knightley
UK
Allan Gotlieb
London, England
Charles Taylor
Canada
Press releases
Announcing the 1997 Winner of The Lionel Gelber Prize
Media coverage
Book’s boom shakes up world
The Toronto Star, October 9, 1997
US writer wins Gelber book prize
The Toronto Star, September 4, 1997
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