Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has won Columbia University’s Cabot Prize for her postings from the island she calls home.

The Cabot Prize, which recognizes reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean, gave Sanchez the gold medal for her work on her blog, Generación Y.

She was the only digital reporter of the four journalists recognized by this year’s prize.

“Generación Y does not repeat the battle of words which Cuba and the U.S. have hurled back and forth for five decades. Instead, it is a pitch-perfect mix of personal observation and tough analysis, which conveys better than anybody else what daily life — with all its frustrations and hopes — is like for Cubans living their lives on the island today,” says the press release, which you can see here.

You can read Sanchez writing about the prize here on her blog, Generacion Y.

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/