Anjan Sundaram (b. 1983, Ranchi, India) is the author of three award-winning memoirs of journalism, Stringer, Bad News and Breakup, and has been called "one of the great reporters of our age" by the BBC foreign correspondent Fergal Keane. He was an Artist in Residence at the Bellagio Center, run by the Rockefeller Foundation, in 2019, and has served as a Fellow at TED, The Berggruen Institute, The Skoll Foundation, and King’s College. Anjan has received a Frontline Club Award, a Moore Prize, and a Reuters Prize, with award citations and critics repeatedly comparing him to the Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski and the Nobel Laureates V.S. Naipaul and William Faulkner.
Anjan’s work centers marginalized communities in the world’s greatest but most neglected conflicts. Anjan creates personal, subjective, and non-authoritative narratives to evoke wonder and a sense of inspiration, by immersing audiences in the reporter’s experience on human rights and environmental frontlines. Anjan’s books have been featured by Christiane Amanpour and Fareed Zakaria on CNN, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Democracy Now by Amy Goodman. He writes for Granta magazine, The New York Times, and the New York Review of Books. His TED talk received over a million views, and he will speak again at TED about his reporting in 2024. Anjan graduated from Yale University and holds a PhD in creative writing and journalism from the University of East Anglia.
Areas of Expertise
Biodiversity, Climate Justice, Environmental Defenders, Environmental Policy and Advocacy, Human rights, Investigative journalism, Literature, Marginalized Communities, Research, Television, War correspondence
