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.
Award details 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. Prize recipients receive between $15,000 and $30,000.
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.”
Recipients +Silvers-Dudley Prize recipientsYearAwardHonoree2022Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary CriticismElaine BlairMerve EmreBecca RothfeldGrace Dudley Prize for Arts WritingVinson CunninghamJason FaragoIngrid RowlandRobert B. Silvers Prize for JournalismAlma GuillermoprietoNesrine MalikThomas Meaney2023Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary CriticismParul SehgalRyan RubyGrace Dudley Prize for Arts WritingT.J. ClarkTausif NoorRobert B. Silvers Prize for JournalismTimothy SnyderCaitlin Dickerson2024Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary CriticismMarina WarnerJennifer WilsonGrace Dudley Prize for Arts WritingSvetlana AlpersHarmony HolidayRobert B. Silvers Prize for JournalismFintan O'TooleKrithika Varagur2025Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary CriticismLouis MenandChristopher TaylerGrace Dudley Prize for Arts WritingJudith ThurmanHelen ShawRobert B. Silvers Prize for JournalismWilliam FinneganGary Younge
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