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This informs the public about the True Story Award 2024. Details about the Program are given below.

True Story Award 2024

About True Story Award 2024

With this message we’re sending out the call for entries for the 2024 True Story Award. Texts from all over the world and in ten different languages can be submitted. Once again, this truly global Award is looking for the best stories from around the world that illuminate local events from a variety of perspectives.

Program Details

Tonight the winners of the third True Story Awards were announced in Bern. In the presence of 200 guests, Mascha Santschi presented this year’s 12 finalists from all corners of the globe. Nicola Steiner, representing the main international jury, presented the global journalism award to the three winners, after which actors from the city’s theatre read the winning texts to the audience.

The winner of the main prize of CHF 25’000 is Marzio G. Mian from Italy. His reportage Hazard to the northeast appeared in Internazionale. The text tells of the first floating nuclear platform of our time, located in the northeast of Russia, on the coast of Siberia, in the port of the city of Pevek. A contemporary Chernobyl on ice, built in one of the most politically, economically and ecologically unstable regions in the world. Mian focuses on a threat that affects us all but that has remained hidden until now. A catastrophe that is not happening but that could happen at any time. A story that reads like science fiction but that could hardly be more real.

Prize & Ceremony

The underlying core of the award is the gathering of journalists from all over the world and the exchange with audience in Bern. The 36 nominees selected by the local Jurys (one person per nominated text ) will be invited to present their work at the True Story Festival from May 24 to 26, 2024.

The main jury will then select the three best texts from the 36 nominees, who will be rewarded as follows:

  1. prize: 25 000 francs.
  2. prize: 15 000 francs.
  3. prize: 10 000 francs.

The award ceremony will be held as part of a festival on Friday, May 24, 2024, in Bern, Switzerland.

True Story Award 2024 Application

For those interested in True Story Award 2024. Open this link to start the application process.

Application Deadline

  • The deadline for receipt of applications is 5 November 2023.

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