Laurence Deonna

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Laurence Deonna in Jordan, 2004.

Laurence Deonna (* 1937 ) is a Swiss journalist , writer , photographer and war correspondent in the Middle East .

Live and act

Laurence Deonna, born in Geneva in 1937 , is the daughter of the economist and politician Raymond Deonna , who headed the board of the former Journal de Genève , and of Anne-Marie Vernet-Faesch, who, like her husband, comes from the Geneva Protestant bourgeoisie. She left school before graduation in 1950, attended the Art Academy in Bath and later returned to Geneva to work in an art gallery. Between 1961 and 1963 she was married for a short time.

Laurence Deonna became a celebrated war correspondent in the Middle East in the late 1960s. In 1967 she was invited to cover the Six Day War and began a long career as a journalist in the Middle East , where she was particularly interested in the lives of Arab women. Realizing that books were a more sustainable avenue for in-depth reporting than newspapers, she published many longer reports of her trips abroad over the next 40 years. These were often illustrated with their photographs.

Her work not only focuses on women, but also shows her belief that many problems in the world could be solved if more efforts were made to achieve peace. In 1987 she was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education for her articles, books and photographs to promote international understanding and to improve the status of women . In Switzerland she was a strong supporter of the 1989 (unsuccessful) referendum to abolish the Swiss army . Her role as a women's rights activist can be seen in the central place she gives women in all of her writings.

Fonts (excerpt)

French

  • Moyen-Orient - females du combat, de la terre et du sable. Labor et Fides, Geneva 1970.
  • Le Yémen que j'ai vu. 24 Heures, Lausanne 1982.
  • Yemen . Arthaud, Paris 1983.
  • La guerre à deux voix. Témoignages de "femme ennemies". Le Centurion, Paris / Labor et Fides, Geneva 1986.
  • Syria, Syriennes (1992-1994). Zoé, Geneva 1986.
  • Persianeries - Reportages dans l'Iran des mollahs (1985-1998). Zoé, Genève 1998.
  • Kazakhstan - Bourlinguer en Asie centrale post-communiste. Zoé, Geneva 2001

English

  • On Persian roads: glimpses of revolutionary Iran, 1985-1998. Passeggiata Press, Pueblo, Colo 1999, ISBN 1-57889-088-8 .
  • Syrians: a travelogue (1992-1994). Passeggiata Press, Pueblo, Colo 1997, ISBN 1-57889-040-3 .
  • Yemen . Three Continents Press, Boulder, Colo 1991, ISBN 0-89410-710-0 .
  • Travels through Kazakhstan: after the fall of the Soviet Empire. Athena Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84748-695-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catherine Fiankan-Bokonga: Laurence Deonna, reporter, photographe, membre d'honneur du Club Suisse de la Presse | Klvin Mag.Retrieved April 30, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  2. ↑ Deonna, Raymond. Retrieved April 30, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Laurence Deonna, reporter, photographe et écrivaine - Vidéo. Retrieved April 30, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ Barbara Burns, Joy Charnley: Crossing Frontiers: Cultural Exchange and Conflict: Papers in Honor of Malcolm Pender . Rodopi, 2010, ISBN 978-90-420-2997-2 ( google.ch [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  5. ↑ 1987 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Deonna, Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, writer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1937