Richard Cockett received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Book 2024

He received the main prize for his work "City of Ideas. When Vienna Invented the Modern World" (Molden Verlag, 2024). The jury praised Cockett's work as a "tribute to Vienna and an advocacy for the importance of cities as places of dialogue, creativity, and progress".

Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book 2024 to Richard Cockett

The book shows how Vienna, as an intellectual center, shaped the development of modern democracies - from the coffee house to "Red Vienna" to cultural concepts that became effective worldwide. Cockett is a historian, long-time editor at "The Economist" and author of several books on politics and society.

Since 1993, in the spirit of Bruno Kreisky's (SPÖ) life's work, political literature that stands for freedom, equality, social justice, solidarity, and tolerance has been honored. The Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book is awarded annually by the Karl Renner Institute in collaboration with the Social Democratic Parliamentary Club and the Social Democratic Educational Organization.

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