First Thought Talks 2023: Journalist, writer and International Editor for Channel 4 News Lindsey Hilsum discusses the war in Ukraine
Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News’ International Editor. Her book, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for biography.
Recently she has reported on the war in Ukraine, and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan. She has covered the major conflicts and refugee movements of the past three decades, including Syria, Mali, Iraq, Kosovo and the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
From 2006-2008 she was based in China, and in 1994 was the only English-speaking foreign correspondent in Rwanda as the genocide started. She has won many awards, including the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year and the Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Medal. Her writing regularly features in the New York Review of Books, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Granta, among other publications. Her first book was Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution. She will be interviewed by Fintan O’Toole, award-winning author and journalist.
First Thought Talks are presented in association with University of Galway.
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