Award name: The Mary Hemingway Award

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…

Best magazine reporting from abroad AWARD YEAR: 1981 AWARD NAME: The Mary Hemingway Award AWARD RECIPIENT: Lawrence Wechsler AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New Yorker AWARD HONORED WORK: “A Reporter in Poland” Wechsler’s two-part series, “A Reporter in Poland,” combines a felicitous literary style with formidable reporting in depth. In a reportorial tour de force running…

Best magazine reporting from abroad AWARD YEAR: 1980 AWARD NAME: The Mary Hemingway Award RECIPIENT: Joseph Kraft AFFILIATION: The New Yorker HONORED WORK: “Letter from OPEC” Twenty-one years ago Joseph Kraft won the OPC award for his Saturday Evening Post coverage of the Algerian revolt. Fourteen years later, he won it for a series of…

The Mary Hemingway Award for the best magazine reporting from abroad “The Colombia Connection: Billions in Pot and Coke” was Time’s best-sell- ing cover in 1979. The story sought to alert the public to the thriving drug traffic from south of the border. Get- ting the story meant treetop flights in small planes, being shot…