Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni belongs to a rare, very rare breed: that of great war correspondents. Considered by many to be "the best war correspondent of our generation," and not by chance, she wrote for the The TimesFrom London, during the Balkan war in the 1990s, he was in Grozny when the Chechen capital fell, being one of the few Western witnesses to this brutal military adventure. His reporting from Kosovo and Sierra Leone led Amnesty International to award him two prizes for how he reported on the human rights violations he witnessed there. His reporting from Chechnya earned him the "Foreign Correspondent of the Year" award from the British television channel Granada's "What the Papers Say" program.
Tireless, he managed to always be present where history was happening, from Somalia to Rwanda, Nigeria to Zimbabwe, passing through Kenya, Ethiopia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast or Liberia. He covered for the Times and for many publications (The New York Times magazine, The New Republic, The Spectator, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal or the International Herald Tribune) conflicts that tore these countries apart, as he wrote from Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor.
She was born in 1961 in the United States and today lives in Paris with her husband, a journalist whom she met during the siege of Sarajevo, reconnected with five years later during the war in Algeria, and with whom she also spent time in Sierra Leone during the violent civil war that nearly destroyed the country.