Silvers-Dudley Prize

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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]

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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. [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

Silvers-Dudley Prize recipients
YearAwardHonoreeRef.
2022Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary CriticismElaine Blair [4] [3]
Merve Emre
Becca Rothfeld
Grace Dudley Prize for Arts WritingVinson Cunningham
Jason Farago
Ingrid Rowland
Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism Alma Guillermoprieto
Nesrine Malik
Thomas Meaney
2023Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism Parul Sehgal [5]
Ryan Ruby
Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing T.J. Clark
Tausif Noor
Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism Timothy Snyder
Caitlin Dickerson
2024Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism Marina Warner [6]
Jennifer Wilson
Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing Svetlana Alpers
Harmony Holiday
Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism Fintan O'Toole
Krithika Varagur
2025Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism Louis Menand [7]
Christopher Tayler
Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing Judith Thurman
Helen Shaw
Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism William Finnegan
Gary Younge

References

  1. "About The Silvers-Dudley Prizes". The Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  2. 1 2 "Inaugural winners announced for Silvers-Dudley writing award". Yahoo! News Canada. 2022-01-05. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  3. 1 2 "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.
  5. "Here are the winners of the second annual Silvers-Dudley Prizes for literary and arts journalism". Literary Hub. 2023-01-04. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  6. "2024 Silvers-Dudley Prize Winners". The Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  7. "2025 Silvers-Dudley Prize Winners". The Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Retrieved 2025-09-29.