Marlise Simons
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Marlise Simonsis a Dutch-born journalist who joinedThe New York Timesin 1982.
She has been based in Paris since 1989, covering a range of subjects across Europe and elsewhere. Most recently she has focused on international human rights law and on trials involving war crimes and genocide at both national and international courts.
Career[edit]
Simons has worked extensively as a journalist throughout Latin America, where she lived from 1971 to 1989, also reporting forThe Washington Post.
ForThe New York Times,she has reported from Central and South America and the Caribbean on conflicts and political murder, torture and disappearances in Latin America.[1]She has also reported on environmental issues in the Brazilian Amazon.[2]
She currently works forThe New York Times's Paris Bureau. In Europe her writing has covered political, social, cultural and environmental issues and in particular proceedings at international courts and tribunals in The Hague dealing with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. She has reported extensively on the work of theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia[3][4]and theInternational Criminal Court.[5][original research?]
Personal life[edit]
Simons was born inSittard,The Netherlands. She is married toAlan Riding,a journalist and author, with whom she has a son, Alexander.
Awards and nominations[edit]
- Awards
- 1974Latin American Studies Associationaward for distinguished reporting from Latin America.[6]
- 1981Columbia University Graduate School of JournalismMaria Moors Cabot Prize for distinguished body of work in Latin America.[7]
- 1990 The New York Times Publisher's Award for a "compelling, stark series of reports on the environmental crisis in Eastern Europe."
- 1995 The New York Times Publisher's Award for "authoritative and haunting pieces" about the discovery of a new cave with Paleolithic art in southern France.
- Nominations
- 1991 Nomination,Pulitzer Prizefor Foreign Reporting, byThe New York Times.[8]
Books[edit]
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Conversations with the authorAmsterdam Meulenhoff, 1986 (paperback)ISBN90-290-2297-3
- The Smoking Mirror: Living in Latin AmericaAmsterdam Meulenhoff, 1987 (trade paperback)ISBN90-290-9727-2
- The Prosecutor and the JudgeAmsterdam University Press Pallas, 2009 (with H. Verrijn Stuart) (trade paperback)ISBN978-90-8555-023-5
References[edit]
- ^"Book and author information forThe Prosecutor and the Judge".Amsterdam University Press.Archived fromthe originalon 1 March 2012.Retrieved3 November2014.
- ^Simons, Marlise (February 19, 1989)."Brazilian Is Looking to Japan To Link Amazon to the Pacific".The New York Times.
- ^Simons, Marlise (November 9, 2007)."Fiery Speech by Serbian Leader at Trial".The New York Times.
- ^Simons, Marlise; Bilefsky, Dan (July 30, 2008)."Karadzic arrives in The Hague for trial despite violent protest by loyalists".The New York Times.
- ^Simons, Marlise (January 18, 2010)."Star Turns at Liberian's War Crimes Trial".The New York Times.
- ^Van der Hoeven, Pien (2012).Het succes van een kwaliteitskrant[The Success of a Quality Newspaper] (in Dutch).Prometheus/Bert Bakker.p. 215.ISBN9789044623598.Retrieved3 November2014.
- ^"Cabot Prize Winners by Name, 1939–2009"(PDF).Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.6 July 2010. p. 14. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 30 October 2013.Retrieved3 November2014.
- ^"Violence Against Women: Conference Speakers".American Graduate School in Paris.Retrieved3 November2014.
External links[edit]
- News articles by Marlise Simons of The New York Times.
- Foreign Policy, Number 43, Summer 1981, "Guatemala: The Coming Danger"
- Journal of International Criminal Justice, Volume 7, No. 1, March 2009, "International Criminal Tribunals and the Media" (ISSN 1478-1387)
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