About Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum is an English television journalist and writer. She is the International Editor for Channel 4 News, and has reported from six continents, including coverage of the major conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Kosovo, Rwanda and Ukraine in the past two decades. She is also a regular contributor to The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, New Statesman, and Granta. Her father is professor Cyril Hilsum, a physicist best known for research that helped form the basis of modern LCD technology. Before becoming a journalist, Hilsum was an aid worker, first in Latin America and then in Africa. Her first book, Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution, was published by Faber in the UK in April 2012, and by Penguin Press in the US in May 2012, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (2012). In Extremis was shortlisted for the 2019 Costa Book Awards in the biography category, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the Biography category.
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