Best non-fiction book on international affairs Award Year: 2024 Award Name: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2024 Recipient: Sune Engel Rasmussen Affiliation: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Honored Work: “Twenty Years” A deeply reported and even-handed account of the Afghanistan War’s impact on the lives of ordinary Afghans – rather than on diplomats, generals and politicians. This…
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The Cornelius Ryan Award 2023
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…
The Cornelius Ryan Award 2022
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…
The Cornelius Ryan Award 2021
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…
The Cornelius Ryan Award 2020
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:…
The Cornelius Ryan Award 2019
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…
The Cornelius Ryan Award 2018
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…
The Cornelius Ryan Award 2017
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…
The Cornelius Ryan Award 2016
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…
The Cornelius Ryan Award 2015
Best non-fiction book on international affairs AWARD YEAR: 2015 AWARD NAME: The Cornelius Ryan Award 2015 RECIPIENT: Tom Burgis AFFILIATION: PublicAffairs HONORED WORK: “The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth “ Exceptionally detailed reporting on a critical topic: how resource-rich African countries have been looted by their political leaders…