Occupation Journalist, columnist Role Journalist Name Christina Lamb | Children Lourenco Genre Journalism, history | |
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Born 15 May 1966 (age 58) London, United Kingdom ( 1966-05-15 ) Spouse Paulo Anunciacao (m. 1999) Books I Am Malala: The Girl, The sewing circles of Herat, The Africa House, Waiting for Allah, House of Stone Similar People Malala Yousafzai, Paulo Coelho, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling Profiles | ||
Christina lamb the flak jacket in my wardrobe covering stories from pakistan to zimbabwe
Christina Lamb OBE (born 15 May 1965) is a British journalist and author. She is the chief foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times.
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- Christina lamb the flak jacket in my wardrobe covering stories from pakistan to zimbabwe
- Insight with christina lamb farewell kabul
- Life and work
- Books
- Journalism awards
- Book awards
- Other awards
- References
Lamb has won fourteen major awards including four British Press Awards and the European Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents,. She is an Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Global Fellow for the Wilson Centre for International Affairs in Washington D.C. In 2013 she was awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to journalism.
She has written eight books including the bestselling The Africa House and I Am Malala, co-written with Malala Yousafzai, which was named Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards 2013.
Insight with christina lamb farewell kabul
Life and work
Lamb was educated at Nonsuch High School for Girls, Cheam and at University College, Oxford (BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). She first made her name when she was awarded Young Journalist of the Year for her coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1988. Shortly after graduating from Oxford, she travelled with the Mujahidin fighting the Soviet occupation, spending the next two years living in Peshawar. She has been reporting on Pakistan and Afghanistan for almost three decades.
Lamb has been based in Islamabad and Rio de Janeiro for the Financial Times and Johannesburg and Washington D.C. for The Sunday Times. She has covered wars from Iraq to Libya, Angola to Syria; repression from Eritrea to Zimbabwe; and journeyed to the far reaches of the Amazon to visit remote tribes. She particularly focuses on women's issues such as the girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, Yazidi sex slaves in Iraq, and the plight of Afghan women.
In November 2001, she was deported from Pakistan after uncovering evidence of a covert operation by rogue elements in the ISI, Pakistan's military intelligence service, to smuggle arms to the Taliban. In 2006 she narrowly escaped with her life when caught in a Taliban ambush of British troops in Helmand. She was on Benazir Bhutto's bus when it was blown up in October 2007.
I Am Malala has been translated into 40 languages, and has sold over 1.8 million copies worldwide. Her latest book Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair co-written with Nujeen Mustafa was published by William Collins (London) in September 2016 and was translated in nine languages.
Lamb's first play Drones, Baby, Drones with Ron Hutchison was performed at the Arcola Theatre in London in 2016.
She is on the international board of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) and is a Patron of the UK-registered charity Afghan Connection.
In 2009 Lamb's portrait was on display in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. A photograph of her by Francesco Guidicini is in the Photographs Collection of the National Portrait Gallery. She inspired the character Esther in the novel The Zahir (2005) written by Paulo Coelho.
In 2017 she was the first female former undergraduate of University College, Oxford to be elected an Honorary Fellow. The Fellowship was awarded in recognition of "her courageous, vivid and critically important journalism, as well as for her support of the College".