Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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. Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, Chandrasekaran holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily.
At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,[1] and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
His first book is Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone published in 2006, which won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize[2] and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction.[3] The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.[4]
References
- ↑ "Rajiv Chandrasekaran". International Reporting Project. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ↑ Ezard, John (19 June 2007). "Chronicle of US chaos in Iraq wins £30,000 non-fiction prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ↑ Persky, Stan (2012). Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 127. ISBN 0773540474.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (4 March 2010). "Review: "Green Zone"". Variety.
Bibliography
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Knopf. 2006. ISBN 9780307278838.
- Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307957146.
External links
- Official page
- Interview with The Guardian
- C-SPAN Q&A interview with Chandrasekaran on Imperial Life in the Emerald City, September 24, 2006
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