Anjan Sundaram

Dr Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning author, journalist and television presenter, whose war correspondence has won a Frontline Club Award and a Reuters prize. Hailed as a ‘successor to Kapuscinski’, his previous books are Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship (an Amazon Book of the Year) and Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo (a Royal African Society Book of the Year). Sundaram has reported from Central Africa for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, Granta, Foreign Policy, Politico and The Associated Press. His books have been featured by Christiane Amanpour and Fareed Zakaria on CNN; by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show; and on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week and Start the Week. Sundaram graduated from Yale University and holds a PhD in Journalism and Literature from the University of East Anglia.

Featured work

• Articles & reports

  Anjan Sundaram and Rafael E. Lozano (2023) Opinion: The deadly costs for Mexico’s Indigenous communities fighting climate change, Los Angeles Times, 26 February 2023.

  Anjan Sundaram (2023) White Bay: Life under the chemical megafactories of Ingeniero White, Argentina, The New York Review, 28 May 2023.

  Anjan Sundaram (2023) Soundscapes of Phnom Penh, Granta, 20 July 2023.

  Anjan Sundaram (2023) He’s a Brutal Dictator, and One of the West’s Best Friends, The New York Times, 11 April 2023.

  Anjan Sundaram (2023) Why the World’s Deadliest Wars Go Unreported, Foreign Policy, 29 May 2023.

  Democracy Now interview with Amy Goodman on conflict reporting, 08 June 2023.

  Daily Show with Jon Stewart interview on DR Congo’s conflict, 01 January 2014.

• Books & chapters

  Anjan Sundaram (2023) Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime, Penguin Random House.

  Anjan Sundaram (2016) Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship, Penguin Random House.

  Anjan Sundaram (2014) Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo, Penguin Random House.

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