Podcast #163: Janine di Giovanni, Bernstein Award Finalist
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The New York Public Library is proud to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. This prestigious award is given annually to journalists whose books have brought clarity and public attention to important issues, events, or policies.
We're interviewing the five finalists for the Bernstein Award on our podcast over the next two months. Today’s episode features the fourth of those interviews, with Vanity Fair contributing editor Janine di Giovanni. Her book is called The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria.
Photo by Peter Nicholls.
Lynn Lobash, Bernstein library review committee member, describes the book this way:
Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people living in the brutality of of post-Arab Spring Syria. What emerges is an extraordinary picture of the devastating human consequences of armed conflict.
Author bio
Janine di Giovanni, Middle East editor of Newsweek and contributing editor of Vanity Fair, is one of the most respected and experienced reporters working today, with vast experience covering war and conflict. She has won major awards, including the National Magazine Award and two Amnesty International Awards for Sierra Leone, Chechnya, and Bosnia. Born in New Jersey, di Giovanni now lives in Paris. The Morning They Came for Us is published by Liveright, a division of W.W. Norton & Company.
Praise for Janine Di Gionvanni
“Janine di Giovanni has described war in a way that almost makes me think it never needs to be described again.” —Sebastian Junger, author of War
“Di Giovanni is a war reporter whose courage is matched only by her compassion for her subjects.” —Evening Standard
Interview and Author Talk
- Interview Leonard Lopate on WNYC (May 12, 2016)
- Talk at the American Academy in Berlin (October 20, 2016)
Di Giovanni Online
Twitter:@janinedigi
Website: http://www.janinedigiovanni.com/
The 2017 winner will be announced on May 22. Check out more of our #Bernstein30 coverage, find a complete list of prior winners, and learn more about the process on the official site.
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Lynn Lobash is a member of the 2016 committee of librarians that selects the five finalists for the Bernstein Award. Lobash is the manager of the Readers Services unit.
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