Chronicles of War | Anjan Sundaram in conversation with Merve Emre

Award-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram’s recent memoir, Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime, is a heartrending account of the personal price that war correspondents pay as they bear witness on the frontlines of humanitarian crimes across the world. Torn between his commitment to his family and his work, Sundaram’s writing evocatively translates his moral dilemmas as he travels through the Central African Republic in a compelling journey of horror and hatred, compassion and courage. In conversation with literary critic and author Merve Emre.
Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning author, journalist, and television presenter, whose war correspondence has won a Frontline Club Award and a Reuters prize. Hailed as a “successor to Kapuscinski,” his previous books are Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship (an Amazon Book of the Year) and Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo (a Royal African Society Book of the Year). Sundaram has reported from Central Africa for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Observer, Granta, Foreign Policy, Politico and The Associated Press. His books have been featured by Christiane Amanpour and Fareed Zakaria on CNN; by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show; and on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week and Start the Week. Sundaram graduated from Yale University and holds a PhD in Journalism and Literature from the University of East Anglia.
Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Personality Brokers, The Ferrante Letters, and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. She has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. She is a contributing writer at the New Yorker.
Follow us on -
Website - jlflitfest.org/
Facebook - / jlfinternational
UA-cam - / jlflitfest
Instagram - / jlfinternational
Twitter - / jlflitfest
#AnjanSundaram #WarCorrespondent #JournalistMemoir #MerveEmre #LiteraryCriticism #AwardWinningAuthor #MoralDilemmas #CentralAfrica #HumanitarianCrimes #FrontlinesReporting #MemoirDiscussion #BookRecommendations #JournalismEthics #FrontlineClubAward #CentralAfricanRepublic #LiteraryConversation #ThePersonalityBrokers #CreativeWriting #NonaBalakianPrize #WarReporting #LiteraryCritique #AuthorInterview #BooksAndAuthors

[@takeoverusa]

Great interview very insightful. Thank you for the upload.
Just Imagine if all humanity focused more on the remedies for falling humanity and old 100yr problems, instead of trying to publish them with a double speak codified lexicon of War language jargon.
Everybody wants to tell somebody else's story instead of just fixing life's reoccurring tragedies.
I guess some prefer listening.
Nothing like jotting down in one's notepad his & her's life. Now the journalist has their stories off there story and the writer/reporting journalist, just created his or hers first person fictional life. Only in Africa America.
It's all Love. Everybody do your thing. Hopefully soon God's children will realize don't add to hell's fires, just simply put the fires out already.
Love thy neighbor ❤
Thanks again Anjan & Merve and JLF. You all are appreciated.
God bless, JoBlow