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FIRST GIVEN IN 1990, the Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award was named to honor Paul Cowan, a Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Ecuador. Cowan wrote The Making of An Un-American about his experiences as a Volunteer in Latin America in the sixties. A longtime activist and political writer for The Village Voice, Cowan died of leukemia
by Maureen Orth
(Colombia 1964–66)
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2004 Award Winner
Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
by Sarah Erdman
(Cote D’Ivoire 1998–00)
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2003 Award Winner
Two Years on South Africa’s Borders
by Jason Carter
(South Africa 1998
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2002 Award Winner
Two Years on the Yangtze
Peter Hessler
(China 1996–98)
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2001 Award Winner
George Packer
(Togo 1982–83)
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2000 Award Winner
How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin
Susana Herrera
(Cameroon 1992-94)
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1999 Award Winner
Writing by American Women Abroad
Kathleen Coskran
(Ethiopia 1965–67)
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1998 Award Winner
True Stories About Somalia
Jeanne D'haem
(Somalia 1968–70)
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1997 Award Winner
A Rainforest Chief Battles Big Oil
Mike Tidwell
(Zaire 1985–87)
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The Untold Story
Linda Donelson
(Cameroon 1965–66,
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A Journey Across the Sahara
Geraldine Kennedy
(Liberia 1962–64)
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Kevin Bubriski
(Nepal 1975–79)
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The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
(Brazil 1964–66)
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America in Micronesia
P. F. Kluge
(Micronesia 1968–69)
Mike Tidwell
(Zaire 1985–87)
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Moritz Thomsen (Ecuador 1965–67)