2016 Lukas Prize Winners Announced
The 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Project Awards will recognize Susan Southard, Nikolaus Wachsmann, and Steve Luxenberg for their nonfiction works.
Theater director Southard wins the Lukas prize for NAGASAKI: Life After Nuclear War (Viking Penguin). Wachsmann, a professor of modern European history, will take home the Mark Lynton History Prize for his book, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Luxenberg, an associate editor at the Washington Post (on leave) and author, will take home the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for his book SEPARATE: A Story of Race, Ambition and the Battle That Brought Legal Segregation to America (W.W. Norton).
The awards, co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, will be presented to the winners and finalists at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
