Lettre Ulysses Award for the art of reportage

Longlist | Authors 2003



(ordered alphabetically with specification of the original language/ first language of publication)

Kemal Anadol, Büyük Ayrili: The great separation, Turkish

Ian Buruma: Bad Elements, English

Christian Dedet: Au Royaume d'Abomey, French

Fan Wen: The Mist on The Ancient Path, Chinese

Nuruddin Farah: Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora, English

Sergio González Rodriguez: Huesos en el desierto [Bones in the Desert], Spanish

Jiang Hao: Revealing the Secrets of Poachers, Chinese

Jean Hatzfeld: Dans le Nu de la Vie, French

Sae-Hwa Hong: The Seine Divides Left and Right, The Hang Gang Separates North and South, Korean

Christina Lamb: The Sewing Circles of Herat. A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan, English

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, English

John Pilger: The New Rulers of the World, English

Sergio Pitol: El Viaje, Spanish

Anna Politkovskaja: Tschetschenien. Die Wahrheit über den Krieg [Chechnya. The Truth about the War], Russian

Anna Politkovskaja: Tchétchénie: le déshonneur russe, French

Linda Polman: We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn't Always Come Out When the UN Goes in, Dutch

Ruben Gonzalez Gallego: Beloié na tchiornem [White on Black], Russian

Ramesh Chandra Shah: Along the Dark Shores, Hindi

Mark Tully and Gillian Wright: India in Slow Motion, English

Bernd Wagner: Wie ich nach Chihuahua kam. Eine amerikanische Reise [How I got to Chihuahua. An American Journey], German


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"The human depth of literary reportage communicates more to us than the news on CNN. This depth can only develop because the authors had time for their work, time that allowed them to understand situations and backgrounds."Abdourahman Waberi (jury member 2003 & 2004)