Christina Lamb
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Christina Lamb is a British journalist who is currently Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times.
She was educated at University College, Oxford (BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
[edit] Awards
- 1988 British Press Awards Young Journalist of the Year
- 1991 British Press Awards Reporter of the Year
- 1992 Amnesty International Award for Periodicals Writing
- 2002 British Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year
- 2002 Foreign Press Association award for reporting on the War on Terror
- 2002 BBC What the Papers Say Foreign Correspondent of the Year
- 2003 Runner-up Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers award
- 2006 Runner-up Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
- 2007 BBC What the Papers Say Foreign Correspondent of the Year
- 2007 British Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year
[edit] Bibliography
- Waiting for Allah: Pakistan's struggle for democracy (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991; London: Penguin, 1992)
- The Africa house: the true story of an English gentleman and his African dream (London: Viking, 1999; London: Penguin, 2000)
- The sewing circles of Herat: my Afghan years (London: HarperCollins, 2002; London: Flamingo, 2003)
- House of stone: the true story of a family divided in war-torn Zimbabwe (London: HarperPress, 2006)
- Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands (London: HarperPress, 2008)
[edit] Sources
By Christina Lamb
- 'Mugabe: Why Africa applauds him', New Statesman, 7 August 2006
- Afghanistan is not Iraq: it can be saved', The Sunday Times, 25 February 2007
- 'Plan to win over Afghans', The Sunday Times, 25 June 2006
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