Ada Ferrer, Tiya Miles and Vladislav M. Zubok are the three international finalists for the 2022 Cundill History Prize.

The $75,000 U.S. ($102,908 Cdn) award is administered by McGill University. It is awarded to the year's best work of historical nonfiction that demonstrates historical scholarship, literary excellence and broad appeal. It is open to books from anywhere in the world, by authors of all nationalities and translated into English from different languages.

The two runners up will each receive $10,000 U.S. ($13,717 Cdn).

Cuba by Ada Ferrer, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for history, explores the evolution of modern-day Cuba from its record of conquest and colonization to independence.

Ferrer is a professor of history and Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University. Born in Cuba and raised in the United States, Ferrer is now based in New York City.

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, which won the U.S. National Book Award for nonfiction in 2021, traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives.

Miles is a Michael Garvey professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute. The Ohio-born writer and MacArthur Foundation fellow is the author of books The Dawn of Detroit, Ties That Bind, The House on Diamond Hill and The Cherokee Rose.

Collapse by Vladislav M. Zubok sheds light on the fall of the Soviet Union from Russian democratic populism to the Baltic struggle for independence and the fragility of authoritarian state power.

Zubok is a professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His other books include A Failed Empire, Zhivago's Children and The Idea of Russia. He was born in Moscow.

The shortlist of three books was selected from a longlist of eight titles. There are no Canadians on the longlist in 2022.

This year's prize jury is chaired by J.R. McNeill, an American environmental historian, author and professor.

"Arriving at a list of three superb finalists from the shortlist of eight excellent books required making difficult judgments and fine distinctions. Still harder judgments remain, as these three books differ markedly from the other two in scope and approach. What they share is the imagination, craft and modulated passion that underlie all lasting creative achievement," McNeill said in a statement.

McNeill is joined by jurors Kenda Mutongi, a professor of history at MIT, British writer and historian Yasmin Khan, American historian Martha S. Jones and British journalist Misha Glenny.

The winner will be announced on Dec. 1, 2022.

Last year's winner was Marjoleine Kars for Blood on the River: a Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast.

Previous winners also include Camilla Townsend, Julia Lovell, Maya Jasanoff, Daniel Beer and Susan Pedersen.