Christina Lamb
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15 May 1965 London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Education | University College, Oxford |
| Genre | Journalism |
| Spouse | Paulo Anunciação |
| Children | Lourenço |
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Christina Lamb OBE (born 15 May 1965) is a British journalist and author. She is the chief foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times.
Lamb has won fourteen major awards including four British Press Awards and the European Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents, is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Global Fellow for the Wilson Centre for International Affairs in Washington D.C. In 2013 she was awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to journalism.
She has written eight books including the bestselling The Africa House and I am Malala, co-written with Malala Yousafzai, which was named Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards 2013.
Lamb was educated at University College, Oxford (BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). She first made her name when she was awarded Young Journalist of the Year for her coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1988. Shortly after graduating from Oxford, she travelled with the Mujahidin fighting the Soviet occupation, spending the next two years living in Peshawar. She has been reporting on Pakistan and Afghanistan for almost three decades.
Lamb has been based in Islamabad and Rio de Janeiro for the Financial Times and Johannesburg and Washington D.C. for The Sunday Times. She has covered wars from Iraq to Libya, Angola to Syria; repression from Eritrea to Zimbabwe; and journeyed to the far reaches of the Amazon to visit remote tribes. She particularly focuses on women's issues such as the girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria,Yazidi sex slaves in Iraq, and the plight of Afghan women.
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