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Janine di Giovanni on reporting war, love, responsibility and her calling to write
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Janine di Giovanni is an author of various award-winning books and one of the world’s great foreign correspondents. She has had a thirty year career in war zones, reporting on conflicts from the first Palestinian intifadato the siege of Sarajevo, the Rwandan genocide and many other wars across the world. She was a long-time Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Times of London and a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, and now writes for the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, Harpers and more. Janine has received countless awards for her work including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award, the Courage in Journalism award, and the Blake Dodd, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She’s also a Senior Fellow and lecturer at Yale University.
Janine has written nine books including Ghosts by Daylight: A Memoir of War and Love and more recently The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria. Each book of hers should be required reading. In addition to contextualising the conflicts, Janine shares the human stories – and in a way, she sheds light on what many people choose to remain in the dark about. She exposes what we find so hard to confront about humanity and ourselves. Follow Janine on twitter @janinedigi.
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