Sarah Topol
Best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature in print or digital on an international story
AWARD DATE: 2020
AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2020
AWARD RECIPIENT: Sarah Topol
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times Magazine
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter.”
AWARD SPONSOR: Michael S. Serrill
Read the winning work here:
Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter.
With intimate and meticulous reporting and elegant prose, Topol creates a haunting depiction of a family tragedy, shedding light on the little-understood plight of China’s Uighurs.
No citation awarded.
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