Conversation with Annick Cojean, senior reporter at Le Monde

Annick Cojean is one of France’s most respected journalists and a senior reporter at Le Monde, where she has worked since 1981. Her career spans major interviews and portraits of public figures, as well as internationally recognized investigative reporting, especially on violence against women in conflict zones. She is also known for Le Monde’s long-running interview series “I Would Not Have Made It If…” which have been adapted for the theater. Cojean also directed TV documentaries and is the author of fifteen books like Gaddafi’s Harem, and two books co-written with Simone Veil and Gisèle Halimi. She is the recipient of a number of prizes including the Prix Albert Londres in 1996 for The Memories of the Holocaust and chaired this prize’s jury from 2010 to 2020

Annick Cojean will be in conversation with Prof. Lia Brozgal of the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) at UCLA. They will discuss Cojean’s work as a journalist and the adaptations of several of her articles into graphic novels—including Les Mémoires de la Shoah—and a play.

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