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Christina Lamb received a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University. She has been a foreign correspondent for more than 20 years, living in Pakistan, Brazil and South Africa first for the Financial Times then the Sunday Times. She has received numerous awards including toon meer Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards for her coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1988, the Foreign Press Association award for reporting on Zimbabwean teachers forced into prostitution, the Amnesty International award for the plight of street children in Rio, and the Prix Bayeux Calvados in 2007. She has written several books including The Africa House, House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe, Waiting for Allah, The Sewing Circles of Heart, and Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands. Christina Lamb will be at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Christina Lamb
Ik ben Malala het verhaal van het meisje dat opkwam voor onderwijs en door de taliban werd neergeschoten (2013) 6,437 exemplaren
The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream (1999) 239 exemplaren
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban [Quick Reads Edition] (2016) 14 exemplaren
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic (2022) 9 exemplaren
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- Oxford University (University College)
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British Press Awards. Foreign Correspondent of the Year, 2001
Foreign Correspondents Association. Foreign Correspondent of the Year, 2001
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Biography Group Read, 4th Quarter: I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, General Discussion in 2014 Category Challenge (december 2014)
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