The Lettre Ulysses Award for 'The Art of Reportage' first created in Berlin three years ago, has been won by the British- born writer Alexandra Fuller for a compelling description of a journey made in Central Africa with a war veteran and mercenary who revisits the scenes of his war-time experiences in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Married to an American and living in Wyoming in the United States, writer Alexandra Fuller was thrilled when she learned that she had hoisted the 50,000 euro (60,000 dollars) top Lettre Ulysses Award in Berlin for her book 'Scribbling The Cat' published in 2004. The ten- member international jury hailed the book a "spellbinding literary accomplishment."