Christina Lamb is a bestselling author and one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents. She has won twenty major awards including seven times being named Foreign Correspondent of the Year in British press awards,the European Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents, and lifetime achievement awards from the Society of Editors and Women in Journalism, as well as the Chesney Gold Medal from the Royal United Services Institute, Britiain’s oldest thinktank, for promoting understanding in war previously awarded to Winston Churchill and Henry Kissinger].
Her work has earned her international renown not only as a ground-breaking journalist but as a campaigner for women impacted by war – raising the issue of sexual violence in conflict worldwide as well as ‘gender apartheid’ in Afghanistan where girls have been banned from high school and women from working and even speaking out loud in public by the Taliban regime.
Her book Our Bodies, Their Battlefields about sexual violence in conflict was described by leading historian Antony Beevor as ‘the most powerful book’ he had ever read and recommended by Queen Camilla in a speech. She has written ten books including co-authoring the international bestseller I Am Malala. She is a Global envoy for UN Education Cannot Wait, Honorary Fellow of University College Oxford, on the board of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, and an Associate of the Imperial War Museum and was awarded an OBE in 2013. In 2026 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford.
She is the author of ten books including The Africa House and co-authored the global bestsellers I Am Malala
She has written ten books including The Africa Houseand I Am Malala, co-written with Malala Yousafzai, which was named Popular Non-Fiction Book