Lindsey Hilsum, Christina Lamb | Jaipur Literature Festival

. In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin: Lindsey Hilsum & Christina Lamb

Lindsey Hilsum is the author of In Extremis: the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, which won the 2019 James Tait Black prize for Biography and has been shortlisted for the Costa Award. She is also International Editor of Britain’s Channel 4 News and has covered many of the conflicts of the last 30 years. Her first book was Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution.

Christina Lamb is one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents and a bestselling author. Her particular passions are Afghanistan and Pakistan, which she has reported on since an unexpected wedding invitation led her to Karachi in 1987 when she was just 21. Within two years, she was named Young Journalist of the Year and has since won numerous awards, including five times being named Foreign Correspondent of the Year. She is the author of seven books, including I Am Malala with Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. Her latest book is Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World.

Lindsey Hilsum wrote the inspiring and devastating biography of Marie Colvin , the foremost war reporter of her generation . When Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria in 2012, the world lost a fearless and iconoclastic war correspondent who covered the most significant global calamities of her lifetime. Colvin started working for The Sunday Times where she gained a reputation for bravery and compassion as she told the stories of victims of the major conflicts of our time. She lost sight in one eye while in Sri Lanka covering the civil war, interviewed Gaddafi and Arafat numerous times and repeatedly risked her life covering conflicts in Chechnya , East Tim or , Kosovo and the Middle East . Colvin lived her personal life in extremis too: bold, driven and com plex, she was married twice, took many lovers, drank and smoked .and rejected society 's expectations for women. Despite PTSD, she refused to give up reporting

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