| The Cornelius Ryan Award | |
| Awarded For: | Best nonfiction book on international affairs |
| Presenter: | Overseas Press Club of America |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1957 |
The Cornelius Ryan Award is given for "best nonfiction book on international affairs" by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). To be eligible for this literary award a book must be published "in the US or by a US based company or distributed for an American audience" during the year prior to that in which the award is given.[1] The winner is chosen in a competition juried by peers from the journalism industry.
Recipients of the award receive a certificate and $1000. The Cornelius Ryan Award is one of 25 different awards currently given by the OPC for excellence in journalism at their annual award dinner, usually held at the end of April.[2] The award is named for the journalist and author Cornelius Ryan, who himself, twice received this, his own namesake award (1959 for The Longest Day and 1974 for A Bridge Too Far).[3]
In 2009 the judges were Chris Power (Bloomberg BusinessWeek), Robert Dowling (Caixin Media Group), and Robert Teitelman (The Deal).
| 1957 | David Schoenbrun | As France Goes | |
| 1958 | John Gunther | Inside Russia Today | |
| 1959 | Cornelius Ryan | The Longest Day | |
| 1960 | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | |
| 1961 | John Toland | But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor | |
| 1962 | Seymour Freidin | The Forgotten People: An Eye Witness Account of the People in the Iron Curtain Countries of Europe from 1945-1961 | |
| 1963 | Dan Kurzman | Subversion of the Innocents: Patterns of Communist Penetration in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia | |
| 1964 | Robert Trumbull | The Scrutable East: A Correspondent's Report on Southeast Asia | |
| 1965 | Robert Shaplen | The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966 | |
| 1966 | Welles Hangen | The Muted Revolution: East Germany's Challenge to Russia and the West | |
| 1967 | George F. Kennan | Memoirs, 1925–1950 | |
| 1968 | George W. Ball | The Discipline of Power: Essentials of a Modern World Structure | |
| 1969 | Townsend Hoopes | The Limits of Intervention: An Inside Account of How the Johnson Policy of Escalation in Vietnam was Reversed | |
| 1970 | John Toland | The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 | |
| 1971 | Anthony Austin | The President's War: The Story of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and How the Nation was Trapped in Vietnam | |
| 1972 | David Halberstam | The Best and the Brightest | |
| 1973 | C.L. Sulzberger | An Age of Mediocrity: Memoirs and Diaries, 1963–1972 | |
| 1974 | Cornelius Ryan | A Bridge Too Far | |
| 1975 | Phillip Knightley | The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Vietnam | |
| 1976 | John Toland | Adolf Hitler | |
| 1977 | David McCullough | The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 | |
| 1978 | Tad Szulc | The Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon Years | |
| 1979 | Peter Wyden | Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story | |
| 1980 | Dan Kurzman | Miracle of November: Madrid's Epic Stand, 1936 | |
| 1981 | Pierre Salinger | America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations | |
| 1982 | Fox Butterfield | ||
| 1983 | David Shipler | ||
| 1984 | Kevin Klose | Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society | |
| 1985 | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | |
| 1986 | Tad Szulc | ||
| 1987 | Raymond Bonner | Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy | |
| 1988 | Whitman Bassow | The Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost | |
| 1989 | Thomas Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | |
| 1990 | Tad Szulc | ||
| 1991 | Sam Dillon | ||
| 1992 | Misha Glenny | The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War | |
| 1993 | Mary Anne Weaver | ||
| 1994 | Michael Ignatieff | Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism | |
| 1995 | Roger Warner | Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and It's Link to the War in Vietnam | |
| 1996 | Peter Maas | Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War | |
| 1997 | Patrick Smith | ||
| 1998 | Philip Gourevitch | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda | |
| 1999 | Thomas L. Friedman | The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization | |
| 2000 | A. J. Langguth | Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975 | |
| 2001 | Mark Bowden | Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw | |
| 2002 | John Laurence | The Cat from Hué: A Vietnam War Story | |
| 2003 | Milt Bearden, James Risen | The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB | |
| 2004 | Steve Coll | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 | |
| 2005 | George Packer | ||
| 2006 | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone | |
| 2007 | Bob Drogin | Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War | |
| 2008 | Dexter Filkins | The Forever War | |
| 2009 | David Finkel | The Good Soldiers | |
| 2010 | Oliver Bullough | ||
| 2011 | Robin Wright | ||
| 2012 | Peter Bergen | ||
| 2013 | Jonathan M. Katz | ||
| 2014 | Evan Osnos | ||
| 2015 | Tom Burgis | ||
| 2016 | Arkady Ostrovsky | ||
| 2017 | Suzy Hansen | ||
| 2018 | Rania Abouzeid | ||
| 2019 | Katherine Eban | ||
| 2020 | Declan Walsh | ||
| 2021 | Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw | ||
| 2022 | William Neuman | ||
| 2023 | Paul Caruana Galizia |