NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Timothy Snyder and literary critic Parul Sehgal are among the many winners of the second annual Silvers-Dudley Prizes, named partly for the late editor of The Latest York Review of Books, Robert Silvers.
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation announced six awards Wednesday, in three categories, with prize money totaling $135,000.
Snyder, who focuses on European history and authoritarian governments, received a $30,000 journalism prize given for “reporting, long-form political evaluation, or commentary.” A second journalism award, value $15,000, went to investigative reporter and have author Caitlin Dickerson of the Atlantic.
Sehgal, a staff author for The Latest Yorker and former Latest York Times book critic, received $30,000 for “long-form literary criticism and the mental and cultural essay.” Ryan Ruby, whose essays have run in The Latest York Times and Harper’s amongst other publications, was given $15,000.
Two Silvers-Dudley prizes got for arts writing: A $30,000 honor for T. J. Clark, an art historian and professor emeritus on the University of California, Berkeley, and $15,000 for Tausif Noor, an art critic and a Ph.D candidate at Berkeley in art history.
The awards are named for Silvers and his late partner Lady Grace Dudley.
“The Silvers Foundation is delighted once more to award these prizes to outstanding practitioners of genres too long under-recognized within the economy of literary prize-giving, the genres which Bob so assiduously nurtured on the Latest York Review,” Daniel Mendelsohn, chair of the Silvers Foundation and editor-at-large of The Latest York Review of Books, said in an announcement.