Lara Marlowe
Lara Marlowe (born 25 April 1957) 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 | 25 April 1957 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 | Robert Fisk (1994–2006) |
On April 11, 2019, Marlowe became a naturalized French citizen.[2]
Career
Born in California, Marlowe received a B.A. in French from UCLA and a Master's in International Relations from Oxford University; she 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.[3]
She regularly reported from Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion thereof. She has been a guest contributor to many broadcast and print outlets. 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.[4] She is a regular contributor to Newstalk 106 in Ireland.
While based in Washington D.C. for The Irish Times, Marlowe traveled twice to Haiti reporting on the immediate aftermath of its catastrophic earthquake in January 2010, and again in July 2010.
Marlowe has written three books: The Things I've Seen (2010), Painted with Words (2011) and Love in a Time of War (2021). The last book is a memoir of the period she worked with Fisk.
References
- Lara Marlowe, 'Robert Fisk, my former husband, was the finest journalist of his generation,' Irish Times 7 November 2020
- Lara Marlowe, 'After the longest journey of my life, I am now a French citizen,' The Irish Times 12 April 2019.
- 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.