JANINE DI GIOVANNI has covered war and conflict in Afghanistan, Israel, Zimbabwe, Zaire, Rwanda, Algeria, East Timor, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and many other places. Author of Against the Stranger (in the UK), about the first Palestinian intifada, and The Quick and the Dead, about the siege of Sarajevo, she wrote the introduction to Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s View of Sarajevo, which became an international best seller. She is also the author of Madness Visible, about the breakup of Yugoslavia. In 2010 she served as president of the jury of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents. She lives in Paris.