Rukmini Maria Callimachi
| Rukmini Callimachi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 June 1973 Bucharest, Romania |
| Education | Dartmouth College Exeter College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist Poet |
Rukmini Maria Callimachi (born 25 June 1973 in Bucharest, Romania)[1] is a Romanian-American journalist and poet.
Life
She left Romania during the communist regime with her mother and grandmother, for Switzerland and then the United States, where she attended The Thacher School in Ojai, California. She graduated from Dartmouth College, and from Exeter College, Oxford, with a masters in linguistics. In 2000, she co-led the Royal Geographical Society's expedition to Tibet. She got her name "Rukmini", through her family's closeness to the Rukmini Devi Arundale, founder of Kalakshetra in Chennai.[2]
Career
She began as a freelancer in New Delhi, India including for Time magazine. She joined the Associated Press in Portland, Oregon, in 2003. She spent a year in New Orleans documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She began reporting out of Dakar, Senegal, as a West African correspondent for The AP in late 2006.[3] In 2014, she was hired by The New York Times.[4] Her reporting focuses on Islamic extremism.[5]
Her poetry has been published in The American Scholar, Oxford Poetry,[6] and Black Warrior Review.[7]
Awards
- 2011 Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award from Ball State University for her article, "Haiti-Hotel Montana".[8]
- 2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist "for her in-depth investigation of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa"[9]
- 2014 Michael Kelly Award and finalist in 2009[10][dead link] and 2012[11][dead link]
- 2007 Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, “Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath,” The Associated Press[12]
- 2004 John M. Templeton Religion Story of the Year award, The Daily Herald (Ill.), "Passage from India" [13]
- 1998 Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry
Works
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Poetry
References
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- ↑ https://twitter.com/rcallimachi
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External links
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- "Callimachi", bnet
- "RUKMINI CALLIMACHI", Free Library
- "RUKMINI CALLIMACHI", Newsvine
- Interview, Longform Podcast #129
