New York – The winners of this year of the Gotham Book Award MEETING New York City as experienced standing, bus and train.
Ian Frazier, author of “Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough”, and Nicole Gelinas, who wrote “Movement: The long war of New York to remove its streets from the car”, will divide the $ 50,000 into prizes awarded by books that “foster and honor writing about New York City,” the officers of the awards announced on Monday.
The strategists of philanthropo-political Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson co-founded the Gotham award in 2020 as a “way of elevating the creative community” during the pandemic.
In “Paradise Bronx”, Frazier is based on his years of walking through the county of New York City and joining everything, from the history of the revolutionary war to baseball and baseball hip-hop. The “movement” of gelinas continues the tradition of classics like Robert Caro’s “The power corridor” By documenting how New Yorkers have fought for the preservation and improvement of mass transport.
“This year, we are proud to award the Gotham book award to two outstanding non -fiction works that combine rigorous investigation with a unique point of view to illuminate the rich and complex history that makes New York city excellent,” Tusk and Wolfson said in a statement.
2021: James McBride, “King Kong Deacon”.
2022: Andrea Esott, “Invisible Child.”
2023: John Wood Sweet, “The Sewing Girl’s Tale” and Sidik Fofana, “Tenign’s below.”
2024: Colson Whitehead, “Crook manifest.”
