Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni (born 1965) is an author and foreign correspondent. Starting in 1987 she became a regular contributor to "The Times", and is now a contributing editor to "Vanity Fair" and other publications, and writes a weekly column for "The Evening Standard" and "The Guardian". She was the only British reporters to cover the fall of Grozny, Chechnya.

She won two awards from Amnesty International for her coverage of human rights abuses in Kosovo and Sierra Leone. She also won the National Magazine Award (2000) in the USA for her article in "Vanity Fair", "madness visible" and won Britain's Granada Television's "What the Papers Say" Foreign Correspondent of the Year for her reporting from Chechnya.

Publisher's biography

Janine di Giovanni is one of Europe’s most respected and experienced reporters covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called “established, accomplished brilliance”(THE BRITISH REVIEW OF JOURNALISM) and she has been called “the finest foreign correspondent of our generation”.AIDAN HARTLEY< THE DAILY TELEGRAPH=February 2007

Born in the United States, she began reporting by covering the first Palestinian intifada in the late 1980s and went on to report nearly every violent conflict since then. Her trademark has always been to write about the human cost of war, to attempt to give war a human face, and to work in conflict zones that the world’s press has forgotten.

She continued writing about Bosnia long after most people forgot it. In 2000, she was one of the few foreign reporters to witness the fall of Grozny, Chechnya. She has tirelessly campaigned for stories from Africa to be given coverage, and she has worked in Somalia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Zimbabwe, as well as Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, East Timor and Chechnya. She was won four major awards, including the National Magazine Award, one of America’s most prestigious prizes in journalism, for her work in Kosovo. She has won two Amnesty International Awards for Sierra Leone and Bosnia. And she has won Britain’s Grenada Television’s Foreign Correspondent of the Year for Chechnya. She also writes books, the latest being: Madness Visible: a Memoir of war, which has been called “one of the best books ever written about war.” di Giovanni is one of the characters of a documentary about women war reporters, BEARING WITNESS, a film by three-time Academy Award winning director Barbara Kopple, which was shown at the Tribeca film festival, and on the A&E Network on May 26, 2005. In 1993, she was the subject of another documentary about women war reporters, No Man's Land, which followed her working in Sarajevo. But her proudest accomplishment is to be the mother of a small boy, Luca Costantino who was born after she reported the war in Iraq. She lives in Paris with her husband, the French journalist, Bruno Girodon, and continues to work on human rights projects while raising her son. She also teaches a "Global Journalism" class at the prestigious Sciences Po school in Paris and is currently writing a novel about war correspondents. Her book Madness Visible was optioned by Julia Robert's Production Company, Revolution Studios, in 2007

Bibliography

* "Against the Stranger", 1993.
* "The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo".
* "Madness Visible: A Memoir of War" (Bloomsbury and Knopf, 2003).