Anne Nivat: An Interview With Ed Tracy

Anne Nivat covered the Chechen war for the French daily Libération and is currently the Moscow correspondent for Ouest-France. She has written pieces for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, and has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, The Connection, and PBS's NewsHour.

She holds a doctorate in political science from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. In 2001, she received the SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award at The Johns Hopkins University.

For her first book, Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya, Nivat disguised herself as a Chechen woman and traveled to the war-torn region despite a Russian ban on journalists. Chienne de Guerre won the Albert Londres Prize in 2000. In the spring of 2003, Nivat set off from Tajikistan on a six-month journey through the aftermath of the American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Her experiences were later collected in The Wake of War: Encounters with the People of Iraq and Afghanistan. Nivat is also the author of The View from the Vysotka, a portrait of contemporary Russian society.