Journalist Bruno Meyerfeld wins the 2026 Albert Londres Prize for his reporting on indigenous peoples in Brazil

At 35, he won the most prestigious award in French-speaking journalism. Independent reporter Bruno Meyerfeld received the 88th Albert Londres Prize on Tuesday October 27 for articles published in Le Monde on indigenous peoples in Brazil. “With poetry, Bruno Meyerfeld does not avoid the violence suffered by Native Americans,” welcomed the jury, evoking a work “largely devoted to environmental issues” and an attachment “to covering the Amazon and the populations who inhabit it”.

In addition to the premier category in written press, the 42nd audiovisual prize was awarded to Brice Lambert, 40, for his documentary film Sex weak, America at war against its women (Arte, Studio fact presse). “This film goes beyond Trump's America to talk about the moral debacle of the country, encysted by religious fanaticism, structural misogyny, viral masculinism,” according to the jury. Finally, the 10th book prize crowned Arthur Sarradin for The Name of Shadows.

Getting out of the Syrian concentration camp hell (editions du Seuil). The 26-year-old journalist was one of the first to witness the opening of Syrian prisons after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. In his work, he retraces the reality of this concentration camp world through the chilling testimonies of former prisoners or small hands of the regime.

The jury noted in Arthur Sarradin, correspondent in particular for Radio France in the Middle East, "an astonishing maturity, a sense of writing and storytelling".

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