Reporting a world in upheaval
Vanora Bennett won the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2004. The Orwell Foundation’s winner profile recognises her as a foreign correspondent for The Times and recounts the international reporting that shaped her writing.
Her career began at Reuters after university. An assignment in Paris led her to Cambodia and its peace negotiations; later, she reported on the conflicts in Angola and Mozambique. She arrived in the Soviet Union shortly before its collapse and spent the early 1990s covering the Caucasus and the events leading to war in Chechnya.
Alongside The Times, her journalism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Prospect, the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian’s Saturday magazine.
Adapted from Vanora Bennett’s profile at the Orwell Foundation.
