2022 Silvers-Dudley Prize Winners
2021 Silvers-Dudley Prize Winners
Elaine Blair
Elaine Blair writes about literature, contemporary fiction, film, television, and feminist thought for The New York Review of Books. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The Paris Review, where she is an advisory editor. She was born in Leningrad, grew up in Philadelphia, and now lives in Los Angeles.
Vinson Cunningham
Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and a theater critic at The New Yorker. In 2020, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his profile of the comedian Tracy Morgan. He has taught in the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and served as a Critic in the photography department at Yale School of Art. His debut novel is forthcoming from Hogarth/Random House.
Merve Emre
Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is a contributing writer at the New Yorker and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017) and The Personality Brokers (2018), the co-author of The Ferrante Letters (2020), and the editor of Once and Future Feminist (2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (2021).
Jason Farago
Jason Farago is a critic at large of the New York Times. He previously wrote for the Guardian, and he has been a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Artforum, the New Republic, Vogue, and many other publications. From 2015 to 2018 he served as editor-in-chief of Even, an art magazine he co-founded, whose ten-issue run is collected in the anthology Out of Practice.
Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto is a Mexican journalist. She found her way into journalism covering the Nicaraguan insurrection against Anastasio Somoza in1979. Since then she has written about Latin America for The Guardian, Newsweek, The New Yorker, National Geographic magazine, El País, and The New York Review of Books. She is the author of three works of reportage and a memoir. Among her awards are a MacArthur Fellowship and the Princess of Asturias award for the Humanities. She lives in Bogotá.
Nesrine Malik
Nesrine Malik is a Sudanese British journalist, columnist, and features writer for The Guardian. She is the author of We Need New Stories: The Myths That Subvert Freedom.
Thomas Meaney
Thomas Meaney is a writer in Berlin. His reporting and review-essays have appeared in Harper’s, the London Review of Books, the New Republic, the Guardian Long Read, and the New Yorker. He has taught in the core curriculum at Columbia and at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University. He is a member of the editorial committee of New Left Review.
Becca Rothfeld
Becca Rothfeld is a contributing editor at The Point and a PhD candidate in philosophy at Harvard. She has written essays and reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The TLS, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Bookforum, The Yale Review, Art in America, and more. She is at work on an essay collection, All Things Are Too Small, to be published with Metropolitan Books/Virago UK.
Ingrid D. Rowland
Ingrid D. Rowland lives in Rome, and writes for both scholarly and general readers on a variety of subjects. Books include The Scarith of Scornello (2004); Giordano Bruno, Philosopher/Heretic(2009); From Pompeii (2014); and The Divine Spark of Syracuse (2018). Translations include the Ten Books on Architecture of Vitruvius, On the Heroic Frenzies by the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, and two plays by the forger Curzio Inghirami. She teaches for the University of Notre Dame.