Peace Corps Experience Award




More information about our awards. Children's Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Travel	Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award IN 1992, THE PEACE CORPS EXPERIENCE AWARD was initiated. It is presented annually to a Peace Corps Volunteer or staff member, past or present for the best short description of life in the Peace Corps. It can be a personal essay, story, poem, letter, cartoon or song. The subject matter can be any aspect of the Peace Corps experience — daily life, assignment, travel, host country nationals, other Volunteers, readjustment. In 1997, this award was renamed to honor Moritz Thomsen (Ecuador 1965–67) whose Living Poor has been widely cited as an outstanding telling of the essence of the Peace Corps experience. The winners are:


	2005	The Things I Gave Her by Lisa Kahn Schnell (Ghana 1998–2000)


	2004	Peace Corps Was by Peg Clement (Tunisia 1975–77)


	2003	The Last Ride by Elise Annunziata (Senegal 1996–99)


	2002	Thirty Years Later by Barbara Carey (India 1966–68)


	2001	Telling Time by Katherine Jamieson (Guyana 1996–98)


	2000	No award given


	1999	White by Lynn Marshall (Mali 1997–99)


	1998	Water by Rachel Schneller (Mali 1996–98)


	1997	Innocence Melts Obstinacy by Leita Kaldi (Senegal 1993–96)


	1996	To Peel Potatoes by John P. Deever (Ukraine 1993–95)


	1995	Better Remember This by Meg Sullivan (Kenya 1992–94)


	1994	The Ballroom by Christopher Conlon (Botswana 1988–90)


	1993	Broken English by Greg Horn (New Guinea 1991–92)


	1992	Development is Down This Road by Abigail Calkins Aguirre (Cameroon 1987–90)


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