The Cornelius Ryan Award is given for "best nonfiction book on international affairs" by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). To be eligible for this literary award a book must be published "in the US or by a US based company or distributed for an American audience" during the year prior to that in which the award is given.Overseas Press Club of America. Overseas Press Club 2010 Awards Application . Archived 19 December 2010 (by WebCite at) The winner is chosen in a competition juried by peers from the journalism industry.
Recipients of the award receive a certificate and $1000. The Cornelius Ryan Award is one of 25 different awards currently given by the OPC for excellence in journalism at their annual award dinner, usually held at the end of April."OPC Adds 6 New Online Categories to Awards Roster", Overseas Press Club of America, 7 December 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2010. The award is named for the journalist and author Cornelius Ryan, who himself, twice received this, his own namesake award (1959 for The Longest Day and 1974 for A Bridge Too Far).OPC Awards Past Recipients , Overseas Press Club of America. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
In 2009 the judges were Chris Power (Bloomberg BusinessWeek), Robert Dowling (Caixin Media Group), and Robert Teitelman (The Deal).
+Recipients of the Cornelius Ryan AwardJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Mary Anne Weaver - Guggenheim Fellow . Archived 19 December 2010 (by WebCite at) Year Author Title 1957 David Schoenbrun As France Goes 1958 John Gunther Inside Russia Today 1959 Cornelius Ryan The Longest Day 1960 William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 1961 John Toland But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor 1962 Seymour Freidin The Forgotten People: An Eye Witness Account of the People in the Iron Curtain Countries of Europe from 1945-1961 1963 Dan Kurzman Subversion of the Innocents: Patterns of Communist Penetration in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia 1964 Robert Trumbull The Scrutable East: A Correspondent's Report on Southeast Asia 1965 Robert Shaplen The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966 1966 Welles Hangen The Muted Revolution: East Germany's Challenge to Russia and the West 1967 George F. Kennan Memoirs, 1925–1950 1968 George W. Ball The Discipline of Power: Essentials of a Modern World Structure 1969 Townsend Hoopes The Limits of Intervention: An Inside Account of How the Johnson Policy of Escalation in Vietnam was Reversed 1970 John Toland The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 1971 Anthony Austin The President's War: The Story of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and How the Nation was Trapped in Vietnam 1972 David HalberstamThe Best and the Brightest 1973 C.L. SulzbergerAn Age of Mediocrity: Memoirs and Diaries, 1963–1972 1974 Cornelius Ryan A Bridge Too Far 1975 Phillip KnightleyThe First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Vietnam 1976 John Toland Adolf Hitler 1977 David McCullough The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 1978 Tad SzulcThe Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon Years 1979 Peter WydenBay of Pigs: The Untold Story 1980 Dan Kurzman Miracle of November: Madrid's Epic Stand, 1936 1981 Pierre Salinger America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations 1982 Fox ButterfieldChina: Alive in the Bitter Sea 1983 David ShiplerRussia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams 1984 Kevin KloseRussia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society 1985 Joseph LelyveldMove Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White 1986 Tad SzulcFidel: A Critical Portrait 1987 Raymond BonnerWaltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy 1988 Whitman Bassow The Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost 1989 Thomas FriedmanFrom Beirut to Jerusalem 1990 Tad SzulcThen and Now: How the World Has Changed Since World War II 1991 Sam DillonComandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels 1992Misha GlennyThe Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War 1993 Mary Anne WeaverPakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan 1994 Michael Ignatieff Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism 1995 Roger Warner Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and It's Link to the War in Vietnam 1996 Peter MaasLove Thy Neighbor: A Story of War 1997 Patrick Smith Japan: A Reinterpretation 1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda 1999 Thomas L. Friedman The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization 2000 A. J. Langguth Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975 2001 Mark Bowden Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw 2002 John LaurenceThe Cat from Hué: A Vietnam War Story 2003 Milt Bearden,James Risen The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB 2004 Steve CollGhost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 2005 George PackerThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq 2006 Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone 2007 Bob Drogin Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War 2008 Dexter FilkinsThe Forever War 2009 David FinkelThe Good Soldiers 2010 Oliver BulloughLet Our Fame be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus 2011 Robin WrightRock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World 2012 Peter BergenManhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad 2013 Jonathan M. KatzThe Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster 2014 Evan Osnos Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China 2015 Tom Burgis The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth2016Arkady OstrovskyThe Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War2017Suzy HansenNotes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World2018Rania AbouzeidNo Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria2019Katherine EbanBottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom2020Declan WalshThe Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State2021 Joe Parkinson,Drew Hinshaw Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls2022 William Neuman Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela2023 Paul Caruana Galizia A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice2024 Sune Engel Rasmussen Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation2025 Barbara Demick Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
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External links Overseas Press Club of America, official website