Janine di Giovanni

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Janine di Giovanni (* 1961 in New Jersey ) is an American war reporter and author. She reported from numerous countries, including Chechnya , Syria , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Somalia and South Sudan . Di Giovanni lives in Paris .

Life

She is the daughter of an aviation - engineer , who took care of disadvantaged young people as a teacher and headmaster. She was studying and writing a thesis on Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's influence on Katherine Mansfield when she became aware of an Israeli lawyer in 1989 who represented Palestinians in courts and did not give up, even though she lost almost every trial. Di Giovanni got to know the everyday life of the people in the West Bank and then began to work in war zones. She writes for the London Sunday Times , among others .

In Chechnya, the Russian authorities considered it undesirable; Wanted-poster-style photos of her were published in newspapers, but she escaped Grozny by passing a check with a baby in her arms. Her mentor and friend Marie Colvin was killed in Homs, Syria in 2012 .

A number of factual errors were detected by Di Giovanni when she published a report on social conditions in France in Newsweek magazine in 2013 under the title “The Fall of France” .

Janine di Giovanni lives separately from the father of her child, who was born in 2004, Bruno Girodon, a French cameraman .

Fonts

  • Against the Stranger. 1993.
  • The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo.
  • Madness Visible: A Memoir of War. Bloomsbury and Knopf, London 2004.
  • The Place at the End of the World. Bloomsbury, London 2006, ISBN 0-7475-8036-7 .
  • The spirits that follow us. A true story of love and war. Translated by Gaby Wurster. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8270-1090-2 . (Original English: Ghosts by Daylight, Bloomsbury and Knopf. London 2011, ISBN 978-1-4088-2051-3 )
  • The morning they picked us up. Reports from Syria from the English by Susanne Röckel . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-397230-6 . (Original English: The morning they came for us. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4088-6829-4 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sacha Batthyany: After the battle. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin. Issue 49/2011, accessed on August 13, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c d Georg Dietz: When life dissolves. In: Der Spiegel. August 13, 2012, pp. 112-114.
  3. ↑ Henry Samuel, Gallic uproar over 'Fall of France' Newsweek article. In: The Daily Telegraph . January 7, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Giovanni, Janine di
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Di Giovanni, Janine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey