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Montreal Gazette, National Post, et al. - Saintly examination wins Cundill Prize

Published: 15 November 2011

Sergio Luzzatto's Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age, an examination of the celebrated yet controversial Italian saint, has captured the 2011 Cundill Prize in History at McGill University, the world's most lucrative literary award for a work of historical nonfiction. The announcement was made at a ceremony in London, England, on Sunday night.

The prize, which was established in 2008 by F. Peter Cundill, a McGill alumnus, is worth $75,000 U.S. Luzzatto, the author of four previous works of history, teaches modern history at the University of Turin. The book was translated from Italian into English by Frederika Randall.

The other finalists were Maya Jasanoff for Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World and Timothy Snyder for Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. They each receive $10,000. Diarmaid MacCulloch won the prize in 2010 for A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.

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