Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History

Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History

Winner announced

The winner of the Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History for 2010 is The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany by Kay Schiller and Christopher Young. The committee was unanimous in concluding that it was the stand-out book this year. It is comprehensive, scholarly, meticulously researched and makes a serious contribution to the history of the Olympic movement. The coverage of Olympic politics and of sport and its part in Cold War cultural relations is very thorough. At the same time it makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of post-war Germany. It will stand as the definitive academic work on the 1972 Games for many years.

Aberdare Prize Committee: Jason Wood (Chair), Dil Porter and Joyce Kay

The short list for the Aberdare Prize for books published in 2010 was as follows (in alphabetical order):

Duncan Hamilton, A Last English Summer (Quercus)

Tony Mason and Eliza Riedi, Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 (Cambridge University Press)

Kevin McCarthy, Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 (Cork University Press)

Kay Schiller and Christopher Young, The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (University of California Press)

Caroline Symons, The Gay Games: A History (Routledge)

Jonathan Wilson, The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches (Orion)