Tania Branigan’s Red Memory wins 2023 Cundill history prize

The journalist and writer spent seven years as a correspondent in China, where she wrote Red Memory. Photograph: Dan Chung

Guardian leader writer Tania Branigan has won the 2023 Cundill history prize for her book Red Memory, about the ongoing trauma of China’s Cultural Revolution told through the rarely heard stories of the people who lived through it.

Branigan will receive $75,000 (£60,984) as part of the award, which is the largest cash prize for a book of nonfiction in English. She was announced as the winner at a ceremony in Montreal on Wednesday evening.