Rajiv Chandrasekaran
| Rajiv Chandrasekaran | |
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| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Notable awards | Samuel Johnson Prize |
Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Tamil: ராஜீவ் சந்திரசேகரன்) is an Indian-American journalist. He is the National Editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994.
Life
He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, where he became editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily and earned a degree in political science.[1]
At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. During 2003, the Post put his stories on the front page 138 times.[2] In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,[3] and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Chandrasekaran's 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize[4] and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction.[5] The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.[6]
References
- ↑ About Rajiv Chandrasekaran at official site rajivc.com
- ↑ Natalie Pompilio. Back from the Rajiv Palace, American Journalism Review, Jan. 2005
- ↑ "Rajiv Chandrasekaran". International Reporting Project. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ↑ Ezard, John (19 June 2007). "Chronicle of US chaos in Iraq wins £30,000 non-fiction prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ↑ Persky, Stan (2012). Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 127. ISBN 0773540474.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (4 March 2010). "Review: "Green Zone"". Variety.
Bibliography
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Knopf. 2006. ISBN 9780307278838.
- Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307957146.