Professor Michael Burleigh has won the 2012 Nonino Prize for his contribution to the study of history, joining a distinguished list of past winners including Sir Vidia Naipaul, Edward Said and Lord Thomas.
Professorial Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, Burleigh has written books on World War 2, terrorism, the Third Reich, and religion and politics. “Of the prizes I’ve won, this is easily the most important,” he said. “I regard this as a tremendous honour for my life’s work from a highly distinguished international prize jury, although I don’t regard it as over.”
After two decades teaching at Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cardiff, as well as Rutgers and Stanford in the USA, Professor Burleigh now works as a writer and scholar with his academic base in the University of Buckingham’s Humanities Research Institute. Having started out as a medievalist, he has moved firmly into the modern world.
Presenting the award, Sir Vidia Naipaul said: “He honours the Nonino idea of excellence, and the award is honoured by him.”
