Janine di Giovanni

Award-winning author and journalist Janine di Giovanni has been covering global conflict since the 1980s, and is considered one of Europe's most respected journalists.
    Her new book, Ghosts by Daylight, has been called by Sebastian Junger "a profound and beautiful book about the two great human struggles: Love and War", and by Elizabeth Gilbert "a great and important achievement".
    In her book, The Place at the End of the World: Essays from the Edge, as with all her writing, she covers the human cost of war - working often in conflict zones that the world's press has forgotten.
    She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, a contributing writer to the New York Times, Granta, Newsweek and many others; and now a weekly columnist for international affairs for Newsweek.

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  • Book Excerpts and Reviews
  • Contacting Janine/Press Photos

    To Editors: Press photos are available from Rannjan Joawn, photographer: joawn.com.

    Tora Bora, Afghanistan, December 2001
    Miami Herald photo



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  • Janine's weekly articles for Newsweek/The Daily Beast: The Internationalist are available here.

    Angelina Jolie ... a brave and dedicated woman
    The Guardian, 19 May 2013

    Life During Wartime: Remembering the siege of Sarajevo
    Harper's, April 2013

    Syria: When Nonviolent Revolutions Spin Into Bloodshed
    Newsweek, 11 March 2013

    Seven Days in Syria
    Granta, Spring 2013

    Janine on reporting war
    TEDxWomen talk,
    1 Dec., Washington, DC

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    Inside Syria
    New America Foundation
    30 Nov. 2012 [ watch ]

    Life During Wartime in Syria
    New York Times, 21 July 2012

    Janine's latest book
    Ghosts by Daylight
    wins Spear's Book Prize for Best Memoir
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