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TORONTO (CP) - Adam Hochschild has won the 2006 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Houghton Mifflin).
Hochschild, who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, is the first repeat winner of the prize, which recognizes top writing on international affairs. He first won the Gelber in 1999 for King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
Hochschild, who has written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and The New York Times Magazine and who co-founded Mother Jones magazine, will be in Toronto on April 4 to give a lecture and accept the $15,000 award.
The prize was established in 1989 by Canadian scholar Lionel Gelber. This year's jury includes George Russell, executive editor of Fox News, and Canadian TV journalist David Halton.
A record 120 nominations were submitted.
The other nominees were Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, for The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right (Times Books); Jeffrey D. Sachs for The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Penguin Press); Stephen M. Walt for Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (W.W. Norton); and Caroline Elkins for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Henry Holt).
© The Canadian Press, 2006
