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Christina Lamb
OBE
Lamb in 2022
Lamb in 2022
Born(1965-05-15)15 May 1965(age 59)
London, United Kingdom
OccupationJournalist, author
EducationUniversity College, Oxford
GenreJournalism
SpousePaulo Anunciação
Children1
Website
christinalamb.net

Christina LambOBE(born 15 May 1965) is a British journalist and author. She is the chief foreign correspondent ofThe Sunday Times.

Lamb has won eighteen major awards including five British Press Awards and the European Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents.[1]She is an Honorary Fellow ofUniversity College, Oxford,a Fellow of theRoyal Geographical Societyand a Global Fellow for theWilson Centre for International Affairsin Washington D.C.[2]In 2013 she was appointed an OBE byElizabeth IIfor services to journalism.[3]In November 2018, Lamb received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from theUniversity of Dundee.[4][5]

She has written ten books includingThe Africa HouseandI Am Malala,co-written withMalala Yousafzai,which was named Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the BritishNational Book Awards2013.[6][7][8]

Education[edit]

Lamb was educated atNonsuch High School for Girls,Cheam, and graduated with a BA inPhilosophy, Politics, and Economicsfrom theUniversity of Oxford.[9]

Career[edit]

In 1988, Lamb was awarded Young Journalist of the Year for her coverage of theSoviet occupation of Afghanistan.[10]

As a journalist, Lamb travelled with theMujahidinfighting theSoviet occupation,spending the next two years living inPeshawar.She has reported on Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than three decades.[11][12]

Lamb has been based in Islamabad and Rio de Janeiro for theFinancial Timesand Johannesburg and Washington D.C. forThe Sunday Times.[10]She has covered wars from Iraq to Libya, Angola to Syria;[13]repression from Eritrea to Zimbabwe; and journeyed to the far reaches of the Amazon to visit remote tribes.[14][15]She pays particular attention to issues such as the girls abducted byBoko Haramin Nigeria,[16]Yazidisex slaves in Iraq,[17]and the plight of Afghan women.[10][18]

In November 2001, Lamb was deported from Pakistan after uncovering evidence of a covert operation by rogue elements in theISI,Pakistan's military intelligence service, to smuggle arms to theTaliban.[19]In 2006, she narrowly escaped with her life when caught in a Taliban ambush of British troops in Helmand.[20][21]She was onBenazir Bhutto's bus when it was blown up in October 2007.[22][23]

I Am Malala,an account of the life of main authorMalala Yousafzai,has been translated into 40 languages, and has sold close to two million copies worldwide.[24]

Her bookNujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchairco-written withNujeen Mustafa,was published by William Collins (London) in September 2016 and was translated in nine languages.[25]The bookNujeeninspired a five-movement cantataEveryday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppowritten byKevin Crossley-Holland(text) andCecilia McDowall(music) first performed by The National Children's Choir of Great Britain in Birmingham Town Hall on 10 August 2018.[26]

Lamb's bookOur Bodies, Their Battlefieldwas published by William Collins (London) in March 2020 and by Scribner (New York) in September 2020 and was translated into 14 languages.[27]Her latest bookThe Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemicwas published by William Collins (London) in June 2022.

Her first playDrones, Baby, Droneswith Ron Hutchison was performed at London'sArcola Theatrein 2016.[28][29][30]

Lamb is a member of the international board of theInstitute for War & Peace Reporting(IWPR)[31]and is a Patron of the UK-registered charityAfghan Connection.[32]

In 2009, Lamb's portrait was on display in theAshmolean Museumin Oxford.[33][34]A photograph of her by Francesco Guidicini is in the Photographs Collection of theNational Portrait Gallery.[35]She inspired the character Esther in the novelThe Zahir(2005) written byPaulo Coelho.[36][37][38]

In 2017, she was the first female former undergraduate ofUniversity College, Oxford,to be elected an Honorary Fellow. The Fellowship was awarded in recognition of "her courageous, vivid and critically important journalism, as well as for her support of the College".[39]

In April 2021, she wrote an article inThe Sunday TimescoveringPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's funeral in which she stated "Prince Philip was the longest serving royal consort in British history – an often crotchety figure, offending people with gaffes aboutslitty eyes,even if secretly we rather enjoyed them ".[40]In response to calls for a retraction of the article on the grounds that it was "trivialising racism",Sunday TimeseditorEmma Tuckerapologised “for the offence caused”, stating that Lamb "never intended to make light of his remark in any way".[41]

Books[edit]

  • Waiting for Allah: Pakistan's Struggle for Democracy(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991.ISBN978-0-670-87727-0)
  • The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream(London: Viking, 1999.ISBN9780241130551)
  • The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years(London: HarperCollins, 2002.ISBN9780007142521)
  • House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe(London: HarperPress, 2007.ISBN9780007219391)
  • Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands(London: HarperPress, 2008.ISBN9780007256891)
  • I Am Malala:The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Talibanco-written withMalala Yousafzai(New York: Little Brown, 2013.ISBN978-0-29787-091-3)
  • Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World(London: William Collins, 2015.ISBN9780007256945)[42][43]
  • Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchairco-written withNujeen Mustafa(London: William Collins, 2016.ISBN9780062567734)[44]
  • Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women(London: William Collins, 2020.ISBN9780008300005)[45]
  • The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic(London: William Collins, 2022.ISBN978-0008487546)

Awards[edit]

Journalism awards[edit]

Book awards[edit]

Other awards[edit]

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

Photographs of Christina Lamb:

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