Lettre Ulysses Award
The Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage was a literary prize for the art of reportage that was awarded annually in Berlin from 2003 to 2006. The donor was the German Aventis Foundation until 2006 , after this funding failed to materialize, no prize has been awarded since 2007. The Lettre International Award Foundation continues to operate as a non-profit GmbH under the management of Frank Berberich, also editor-in-chief and managing director of Lettre International Verlags GmbH.
There are three price levels: 1. Price: $ 50,000; 2nd Prize: $ 30,000; 3rd Prize: $ 20,000.
Previous winners
2003
- 1st prize: Anna Politkowskaja (Russia)
- 2nd prize: Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
- 3rd Prize: Jiang Hao (China)
The award speech was given by Ryszard Kapuściński .
2004
- 1st prize: Chen Guidi & Wu Chuntao (China)
- 2nd prize: Tracy Kidder (USA)
- 3rd prize: Daniel Bergner
The award speech was given by Abdelwahab Meddeb .
2005
- 1st prize: Alexandra Fuller
- 2nd prize: Abdellah Hammoudi
- 3rd Prize: Riverbend (Iraq)
The award speech was given by Sven Lindqvist .
2006
- 1st prize: Linda Grant (Great Britain)
- 2nd prize: Érik Orsenna (France)
- 3rd prize: Juanita León (Colombia)
The Chinese Zhou Qing was one of the other four finalists .
Web links
- Official website of the Lettre Ulysses Awards
- The Goethe Institute for the Prize and Lettre International
- Thierry Chervel: "Provisional end for Lettre Ulysses Award" at perlentaucher.de (on the setting of the price in October 2006)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.goethe.de/wis/med/thm/prs/de1380891.htm
- ^ The Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage will not be presented in 2007 . Press release of April 2, 2007. (Accessed July 9, 2009.)
- ↑ Extract from the commercial register, register no. HRA HRB GnR PR VR HRB 87709
- ↑ http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/index03/keynotespeech2003deu.html (Kapuściński-Rede Herodotus - Reporter of Antiquity )
- ↑ http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/news/meddeb_deu.html (Meddeb speech Schmugglerpfade )
- ↑ http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/news/lindqvist_deu.html (Lindqvist speech The Power of Truth )