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2009 Lukas Prize Project winners announcedMarch 31, 2009 The Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University have announced the winners of the 2009 Lukas Prize Project Awards for Exceptional Works of Nonfiction. Recipients include an examination of the Bush administration’s decision to use torture in the war on terror, and the price paid by the United States for this abandonment of its first principles, by Jane Mayer; a study of works by Vermeer that reveals the beginning of international trade, by Timothy Brook; and an account of the Navajo nation, and how the government mined their land for uranium and contaminated their environment with radiation, by Judy Pasternak. Established in 1998, the prizes recognize excellence in nonfiction writing that exemplifies the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern that characterized the distinguished work of the awards’ Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake J. Anthony Lukas, who died in 1997. Read the full press release |
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