Best magazine reporting from abroad
AWARD YEAR: 1983
AWARD NAME: The Mary Hemingway Award 1983
RECIPIENT: Christopher Dickey
AFFILIATION: The New Republic
HONORED WORK: “Behind the Death Squads”
Dickey’s story, with grace and clarity, provides a fresh, concise perspective on the persistent and complex phenomenon of organized assassination that has become central to the turmoil in Central America. Eye-witness accounts and personal interviews skillfully interwoven with historical background deftly illuminate the dilemmas inherent in American policy makers’ efforts to comprehend and cope with the volcanic social, economic and political forces at work. Dickey, for the past three years Washington Post Mexico bureau chief covering the Caribbean, is now on an Edward R. Murrow fellowship.
Citations for Excellence:
Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times Magazine
“Living with the Violence of Beirut”
Bernard Diederich, Ed Magnuson and William McWhirter
TIME magazine
“D-Day in Grenada”