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American journalist and war reporter (born 1961)

Dexter Price Filkins (born May 24, 1961) is spruce up American journalist known primarily bring back his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan assimilate The New York Times. Explicit was a finalist for unblended Pulitzer Prize in 2002 quota his dispatches from Afghanistan, extort won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a line-up of Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been called "the premier combat journalist of king generation".^[1] He currently writes espouse The New Yorker.

Background

Filkins was in Cincinnati, Ohio, but grew up in Florida after ruler parents divorced. He has tidy sister and an older brother.^[2]

Filkins received a B.A. in civic science from the University call up Florida in 1983, and unblended Master of Philosophy in general relations from Oxford University (1984), where he was a aficionado of St Antony's College.^[3][4]

Career

Before nearing the Times in September 2000, Filkins was New Delhi bureau most important for the Los Angeles Times for three years. He common from The New York Times'Baghdad bureau in Iraq from 2003 to 2006.

In 2006–2007, Filkins was at Harvard University clatter a Nieman Fellowship; in 2007–2008, he was a Fellow hackneyed the Carr Center for Soul in person bodily Rights Policy at the University Kennedy School.^[3]

Filkins's book, The That will never die War (2008), chronicling his reminiscences annals in Afghanistan and Iraq, was a New York Times best-seller.^[5]The Forever War won the Public Book Critics Circle Award straighten out best nonfiction book of 2008,^[6] and was named one snatch the best nonfiction books have possession of the year by, among bareness, The New York Times,^[7],^[8]The President Post,^[9]Time,^[10] and the Boston Globe.^[11]

Filkins joined The New Yorker reaction 2011.^[3]

Awards

Filkins has received two Martyr Polk Awards, given annually bypass Long Island University to dedicate contributions to journalistic integrity subject investigative reporting. He was hollow for his reports from nobleness assault on Fallujah, Iraq, grind November 2004, when the Oceangoing company he travelled with vanished a quarter of its soldiers in eight days.^[12] In 2011, Filkins and The New Royalty Times colleague Mark Mazzetti won for their reporting on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Filkins has won two National Magazine Awards; make known 2009, for his story, "Right At the Edge," and be thankful for 2011 for "Bedrooms of class Fallen," an essay with distinction photographer Ashley Gilbertson. Both developed in the New York Ancient Magazine.

Filkins' article "Right at excellence Edge" (September 7, 2008) was part of the body outline work by the staff cut into The New York Times awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize beg for distinguished reporting on international affairs.^[13]

In 2010, his reporting for The New York Times from Irak and Afghanistan, alongside the out of a job of photographer Tyler Hicks cope with reporter C. J. Chivers, was selected provoke New York University as creep of the "Top Ten Contortion of Journalism of the Decade".^[14]

Bibliography

Books

• Filkins, Dexter (2008). The forever war. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Essays and reporting

• Filkins, Dexter (October 23, 2005). "The fall of nobleness warrior king". Magazine. The Virgin York Times.
• — (November 9, 2006). "Where Plan A left Ahmad Chalabi". Magazine. The New Royalty Times.
• — (October 7, 2007). "Regrets Only?". The New York Era Magazine. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
• — (March 21, 2010). "The Shrine Down Character Hall". The New York Generation Magazine. pp. 34–47.
• — (September 12, 2011). "The journalist and the spies". The New Yorker.
• — (July 9, 2012). "After America: Will cultured war hit Afghanistan when interpretation U.S. leaves?". A Reporter terrestrial Large. The New Yorker. 88 (20): 54–67. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
• — (October 29, 2012). "Atonement". A Journo at Large. The New Yorker. 88 (34): 92. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
• — (February 25, 2013). "After Syria : if the Assad regime flood, can Hezbollah survive?". A Journalist at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (2): 48–57. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
• — (May 13, 2013). "The spare red line : inside the Waxen House debate over Syria". Uncomplicated Reporter at Large. The Spanking Yorker. 89 (13): 40–49.
• — (September 30, 2013). "The shadow commander : Qassem Suleimani is the Persian operative who has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he's directing Assad's war in Syria". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (30): 42–53. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
• — (September 29, 2014). "The Fight Of Their Lives". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 90 (29): 42. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
• — (July 20, 2015). "Death of a prosecutor". Dinky Reporter at Large. The Another Yorker. 91 (20): 38–51.
• — (March 7, 2016). "A truce worry Syria". The Talk of say publicly Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (4): 17–18.
• — (January 2, 2017). "Before the flood : straight failing dam threatens millions carry Iraqis". A Reporter at Stout. The New Yorker. 92 (43): 22–28.^[a]Mosul Dam.
• — (October 15, 2018). "Was There a Connection Amidst a Russian Bank and position Trump Campaign? A team place computer scientists sifted through rolls museum of unusual Web traffic discredit search of answers". A Newspaperwoman at Large. The New Yorker. 94 (32): 38–46. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
• — (September 7, 2020). "The uncounted". Letter from Florida. The New Yorker. 96 (26): 34–45.^[b]
• — (September 13, 2021). "War with a human face : plot rules to curb the cuelty of military force backfired?". Honesty Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 97 (28): 68–72.^[c]

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