Michael Jacobs Travel Chronicle Scholarship 2022

In 2014, after the death of Michael Jacobs, the Gabo Foundation and the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias, as part of an alliance of more than a decade, took the initiative to organize, as a tribute to the English writer, the Michael Jacobs Chronicle Grant traveler. The scholarship is funded by the Michael Jacobs Foundation for Travel Writing, a non-profit organization created by Michael’s widow and brother to honor his legacy and promote travel writing in Spain and Latin America.

The scholarship, which reaches its eighth edition with the purpose of encouraging travel reports, will award $ 7,500 for a book project or travel article on Latin America or Spain, to be published in Spanish or English.

To choose the winner, the juries will take into account the narrative quality and the journalistic depth of the projects. For Michael Jacobs, travel journalism went beyond the simple anecdotal experience and for this reason works capable of awakening the five senses and that open the mind to any reader are sought.