Lara Marlowe
Lara Marlowe is a US-born journalist and author, who was the US correspondent for The Irish Times (2009–2012) before returning to Paris in 2013 as the paper's Paris correspondent. Marlowe also spent 15 years as a journalist for Time. She was married to Robert Fisk for 12 years.[1]
Lara Marlowe | |
|---|---|
| Born | California, United States |
| Nationality | American, French |
| Education | UCLA, Sorbonne, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Notable credit(s) | War correspondent (most recently Iraq War, Afghanistan, 2006 Lebanon War); Beirut Bureau chief – Time (1981–1996); Middle East correspondent – The Irish Times (1996–2009); US correspondent – The Irish Times (2009–2012), Books: The Things I've Seen (2010), Painted with Words (2011) |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Fisk (1994–2006) |
Career
Born in California, Marlowe holds a B.A. in French from UCLA, a Master's in International Relations from Oxford University, and also spent a year of study at the Sorbonne. She became a correspondent for the Irish Times in 1996, after resigning, in the wake of the Qana massacre, from Time, where she was Beirut bureau chief, in protest at the reluctance of its editors to print anything critical of Israel.[2]
She regularly reported from Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion. She has been a guest for many other broadcast and print media. Marlowe is a leading journalist on the Middle East as well as domestic French politics. For her work she was made Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 2006.[3] She is a regular contributor to Newstalk 106 in Ireland.
As of 2009, Marlowe was based in Washington D.C. from where she has reported on the United States for The Irish Times. She traveled twice to Haiti reporting on the immediate aftermath of its catastrophic earthquake in January 2010, and again in July 2010. She returned to France as The Irish Times' Paris correspondent in 2013.
Marlowe has written two books, The Things I've Seen (2010) and Painted with Words (2011).
On April 11, 2019, Marlowe became a naturalized French citizen.[4]
References
- Lara Marlowe, 'Robert Fisk, my former husband, was the finest journalist of his generation,' Irish Times 7 November 2020
- David Manning and Miriam Cotton, with Lara Marlowe, 'An Interview with Lara Marlowe, Foreign Correspondent for the Irish Times,' MediaBite 13 June 2008
- Patrick Smyth, 'French honour 'Irish Times' journalist,' The Irish Times 24 June 2006.
- Lara Marlowe, 'After the longest journey of my life, I am now a French citizen,' Irish Times 12 April 2019.