Irena Cristalis

Irena Cristalis receives the Ordem de Timor-Leste from Francisco Guterres at the celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of the independence referendum.

Irena Cristalis (* 1959) is a Dutch journalist and photographer.

She has been working in Asia since the mid-1980s. From the mid-1990s she reported for international media such as the BBC , The Economist and Radio Netherlands from East Timor, which was occupied by Indonesia and has been independent since 2002 . In 2007, she lived in India New Delhi .

On August 30, 2019, Francisco Guterres , the president of the now independent East Timor, awarded Irena Cristalis with the medal of the Ordem de Timor-Leste .

Publications

Bitter dawn: East Timor, a people's story , 2002.
Independent women: the story of women's activism in East Timor , 2005, with Catherine Scott and Ximena Andrade.
Perempuan merdeka: kisah aktivisme hardly perempuan di Timor Leste , 2007.
East Timor - A Nation's Bitter Dawn , 2009, ISBN 9781848130135 .
Feast! : stories on food and love , 2019, together with Swee Fong Wong u. a.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Rinoceros: CRISTALIS Irena , March 20, 2007 , accessed September 10, 2019.
^ President of East Timor: PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC BESTOWS UPON TEN INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES THE ORDER OF TIMOR-LESTE , September 1, 2019 , accessed on September 3, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Cristalis, Irena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1959

[rino-1] Rinoceros: CRISTALIS Irena , March 20, 2007 , accessed September 10, 2019.

[pres2019-09-01-2] President of East Timor: PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC BESTOWS UPON TEN INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES THE ORDER OF TIMOR-LESTE , September 1, 2019 , accessed on September 3, 2019.