Role Journalist Genre non-fiction Education Stanford University | Movies Green Zone Name Rajiv Chandrasekaran | |
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Awards Samuel Johnson Prize, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year Nominations Guardian First Book Award, National Book Award for Nonfiction Books Imperial Life in the Emerald, Little America: The War, For Love of Country, Green Zone: Imperial L, Green Zone Similar People Paul Greengrass, Howard Schultz, Brian Helgeland, Joshua Cohen, Martha Nussbaum Profiles | ||
Notable awards Samuel Johnson Prize | ||
Rajiv chandrasekaran 2015 national book festival
Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Tamil: ராஜீவ் சந்திரசேகரன்) is an Indian-American journalist. He is the National Editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994.
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- Rajiv chandrasekaran 2015 national book festival
- Rajiv chandrasekaran the war within the war
- Life
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Rajiv chandrasekaran the war within the war
Life
He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, where he became editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily and earned a degree in political science.
At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. During 2003, the Post put his stories on the front page 138 times. In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Chandrasekaran's 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction. The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.