Lettre Ulysses Award for the art of reportage

Shortlist | Authors 2006


The authors and their books

The shortlist of the authors and their works chosen for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage 2006 (ordered alphabetically):


Karl-Markus Gauß, Austria

Die Hundeesser von Svinia
[The Dog Eaters of Svinia]


Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna, 2004 



Linda Grant, Great Britain

The People on the Street. A Writer’s View of Israel




Virago Press, London, 2006



Juanita León, Colombia

País de plomo. Crónicas de guerra
[Country of Bullets. War Diaries]


Aguilar, 2005



Li Datong, China

"Bingdian" Gushi.
[The Story of “Freezing Point”] 


Guangxi Shifan Daxue Chubanshe, 2005  



Erik Orsenna, France

Voyage aux pays du coton. Petit précis de mondialisation
[Journey to the Lands of Cotton. A Brief Manual of Globalisation]

Fayard, Paris, 2006 




Manjushree Thapa, Nepal 

Nepal: Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy



Penguin Viking India, New Delhi, 2005 



Zhou Qing, China

"Min Yihe Shi Wei Tian". Zhongguo Shipin Anquan Xianzhuang Diaocha, Bangao Wenxue, 9/2004

["What Kind of God". A Survey of the Current Safety of China’s Food, in: Reportage Literature 9/2004]

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"The writer figure as it were, the author, is a unique creation of the West, an individual author who goes around and looks, and examines, and incorporates this very diverse experience and becomes an authority on his subject. Those claims are looking increasingly shallow and quite flawed."Pankaj Mishra (jury member 2004 & 2005)