Lettre Ulysses Award for the art of reportage

Winners 2004



1st Prize (50.000 Euro)

Chen Guidi & Wu Chuntao

A Survey of Chinese Peasants

People's Literature Publication Company, Beijing 2003, Chinese




2nd Prize (30.000 Euro)

Tracy Kidder

Mountains Beyond Mountains. The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Random House, New York 2003. English




3rd Prize (20.000 Euro)

Daniel Bergner

Soldiers of Light

Allen Lane/Penguin, London 2004. English
(published 2003 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, under the title In the Land of Magic Soldiers. A Story of White and Black in West Africa)

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"A reportage writer should be a speaker for justice, kindness and hope, according to the idea that the business of philosophy is not merely to understand the world, but to change it. Reportage should help us change our morbid world: first to change our ideas, then to change our world."Zhao Xinshan (jury member 2004)