Shortlist | Authors 2005
The authors and their books
The shortlist of the authors and their works chosen for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage 2005 (ordered alphabetically):
1.
Anonymous/ Riverbend
Baghdad Burning. Girl Blog from Iraq
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, New York, 2005. Published in the UK by Marion Boyars Publishers, London, 2005
2.
Carolin Emcke
Von den Kriegen. Briefe an Freunde
S.Fischer, Frankfurt/M., 2004
3.
Alexandra Fuller
Scribbling the Cat. Travels with an African Soldier
Penguin Press, New York, 2004
4.
Abdellah Hammoudi
Une saison à la Mecque. Récit de pèlerinage
Seuil, Paris, 2004
5.
William Langewiesche
The Outlaw Sea. A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
North Point Press, New York, 2004
Published as The Outlaw Sea. Chaos and Crime on the World's Oceans by Granta Books, London, 2005.
6.
Suketu Mehta
Maximum City. Bombay Lost and Found
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004
7.
Ricardo Uceda
Muerte en el Pentagonito. Los cementerios secretos del Ejército Peruano
Editorial Planeta, Bogotá, 2004
"“Eyewitnessing” is the linchpin of literary reportage."Nedim Gürsel (jury member 2003 & 2006)