Award archive category: Book

Best non-fiction book on international affairs AWARD YEAR: 2023 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2023 RECIPIENT: Paul Caruana Galizia AFFILIATION: Penguin Random House, Riverhead Books HONORED WORK: “A Death in Malta” The author has written an outstanding biography of his mother, Daphne Caruana Galizia – a Maltese journalist assassinated by a car bomb for…

Best non-fiction book on international affairs AWARD YEAR: 2022 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2022 RECIPIENT: William Neuman AFFILIATION: St. Martin’s Press HONORED WORK: “Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela” William Neuman’s book is a devastating account of the collapse of the economy and political…

Best non-fiction book on international affairs AWARD DATE: 2021 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2021 AWARD RECIPIENT: Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: HarperCollins AWARD HONORED WORK: Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls AWARD SPONSOR: Friends of Richard Threlkeld Bring Back our Girls…

Best non-fiction book on international affairs AWARD DATE: 2020 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2020 AWARD RECIPIENT: Declan Walsh AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: W.W. Norton & Company AWARD HONORED WORK: The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State AWARD SPONSOR: Friends of Richard Threlkeld Citation: Joshua Yaffa Crown Publishing Group Between Two Fires:…

Best non-fiction book on international affairs. AWARD DATE: 2019 AWARD NAME: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2019 AWARD RECIPIENT: Katherine Eban AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Ecco/HarperCollins AWARD HONORED WORK: “Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom” AWARD SPONSOR: Friends of Richard Threlkeld Eban documents the massive fraud by which Indian drug makers have evaded a…

Best non-fiction book on international affairs AWARD DATE: 2018 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2018 AWARD RECIPIENT: Rania Abouzeid AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: W. W. Norton & Company AWARD HONORED WORK: No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria AWARD SPONSOR: Friends of Richard Threlkeld “No Turning Back” is an extraordinary feat of reporting—a searing account of the…

Best non-fiction book on international affairs AWARD DATE: 2017 AWARD NAME: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award AWARD RECIPIENT: Suzy Hansen AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Farrar, Straus and Giroux AWARD HONORED WORK: Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World AWARD SPONSOR: Friends of Richard Threlkeld American journalist Suzy Hansen moved to Istanbul…

Best non-fiction book on international affairs AWARD DATE: 2016 AWARD NAME: 14 The Cornelius Ryan Award AWARD RECIPIENT: Arkady Ostrovsky AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Viking/Penguin Random House AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War” Grippingly told and brimming with brilliant insights, “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s…

This is a disturbing story of life inside the walled-off Baghdad enclave that has served as the nerve center of America’s occupation of Iraq. The Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran captures the dangerous absurdity of Americans ensconced in their imperial comcompound.

Best nonfiction book on international affairs AWARD YEAR: 2004 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2004 RECIPIENT: Steve Coll AFFILIATION: The Penguin Press HONORED WORK: “Ghost Wars” In his remarkable book, Steve Coll has brought submerged history to light and so made a critical contribution to understanding of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the…