Best magazine reporting from abroad
AWARD DATE: 1991
AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 1991
AWARD RECIPIENT: Michael Kelly
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New Republic
AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Rape and Rescue of Kuwait City,” “Highway To Hell” and “Back to the .Hills.”
The powerful and vivid accounts of his travels through Kuwait and the Kurdish strongholds of Northern Iraq showed a fine eye for detail and a determination to reveal the horrors
on all sides of the Persian Gulf War. Understated and beautifully crafted, Kelly’s reporting and writing became a profound meditation on the depths of human cruelty.
Citation(s) for Excellence:
Colin Nickerson
The Boston Globe Magazine
“Foxholes and Fear in Kuwait.”
Kostantin Akinsha, Andrew Decker and Grigorii Kozlov
ART News
“Spoils of War: The Soviet Union’s Hidden Art Treasures” and four follow-up articles.