The Silvers-Dudley Prize is an American literary award established in 2021 and presented by the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Three prizes are awarded each year: the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, the Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing, and the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism.[1]

Award details

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The Silver-Dudley Prize is named after the late Robert B. Silvers, long-time editor of The New York Review of Books, and his partner, the late Lady Grace Dudley.[2] Prize recipients receive between $10,000 and $30,000.[2]

Daniel Mendelsohn, director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, explained the awards, saying, “These prizes richly reward a kind of writing that has long been under-recognized in the economy of literary prize-giving—long-form criticism, the intellectual essay, and arts writing—along with the penetrating journalism that Bob nurtured at the New York Review. In his will, Bob stipulated that the Foundation work to ‘support writers’; with these new prizes, we like to think we’re doing just that.”[3]

Recipients

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Silvers-Dudley Prize recipients
Year Award Honoree Ref.
2021 Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism Elaine Blair [4][3]
Merve Emre
Becca Rothfeld
Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing Vinson Cunningham
Jason Farago
Ingrid Rowland
Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism Alma Guillermoprieto
Nesrine Malik
Thomas Meaney

References

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  1. ^ "About The Silvers-Dudley Prizes". The Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  2. ^ a b "Inaugural winners announced for Silvers-Dudley writing award". Yahoo! News Canada. 2022-01-05. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  3. ^ a b "Winners of the Silvers-Dudley Prizes Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  4. ^ Caplan, Walker (2022-01-05). "Here are the winners of the inaugural Silvers-Dudley Prizes for criticism and journalism". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2022-01-07.