Lettre Ulysses Award for the art of reportage

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





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