Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (2007) Winner
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
ラジーヴ・チャンドラセカラン
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- San Francisco Bay Area
Career
- Occupations
- journalist, senior correspondent, associate editor
- Active Years
- 1994-2024
- Affiliations
- The Washington Post
- Nominations
- National Book Awards finalist for nonfiction (2006)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford University | — | political science | 政治学士 | — | United States |
Stanford University
political science
Degree:
政治学士
Country:
United States
Editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Samuel Johnson Prize | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone | ノンフィクション | Samuel Johnson Prize Foundation | 受賞 |
Samuel Johnson Prize
2007
Work:
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Category:
ノンフィクション
Organization:
Samuel Johnson Prize Foundation
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
2006 non-fictionA nonfiction account of American bureaucrats' lives and failures inside Baghdad's Green Zone during the Iraq War.
Iraq Warbureaucracyoccupation policy
Adaptations
- [film] Green Zone / Paul Greengrass (2010)
Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan
2012 non-fictionA nonfiction examination of U.S. failures in provincial strategy in the Afghanistan War.
Afghanistan Warprovincial strategy
For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice
2014 non-fictionNonfiction on lessons in citizenship, heroism, and sacrifice from U.S. veterans (co-authored with Howard Schultz).
veteranscitizenshipheroism
Bibliography
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (2006)
- Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan (2012)
- For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice (2014)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- in-depth reportageimmersive journalism
- Recurring Motifs
- war reportingpolicy failureshuman drama
Legacy
An American journalist internationally acclaimed for his reporting on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize.
In Popular Culture
- His book Imperial Life in the Emerald City inspired the film Green Zone.
Trivia
- Served as editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily.
- Had stories on the front page of The Washington Post 138 times in 2003.