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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Nonfiction | 2025 | Winner | “The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction in 2025.” |
About This Book
A sweeping global history of fire—its role in shaping human civilisation, its relationship to ecology, its use as a tool of war and land management across cultures, and its terrifying return as catastrophic wildfire in the age of climate change. Historian Sunil Amrith traces fire's place in human history from earliest human evolution to the burning forests of the twenty-first century. Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction.
About the Author
Sunil AmrithBritish-Singaporean
Sunil Amrith is a British-Singaporean historian and the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University. He was born in Singapore and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he also completed his doctorate. He has written widely on the history of Asia, migration, public health, and the environment. Read more →
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