Lara MarloweParis-based author and contributor to the Irish Times

Lara Marlowe was born in California and studied French at UCLA and the Sorbonne, then International Relations at Oxford. She started her career as an associate producer with CBS’s 60 Minutes programme, then shifted to print media with the Financial Times and TIME Magazine. She has reported for a host of broadcast and print media and was a staff foreign correspondent, based in Paris and Washington, for The Irish Times from 1996 until 2023. She continues to write a column for The Irish Times.

Marlowe has reported from more than a dozen wars and has won four press awards. She makes her permanent home in Paris, where she has covered five French presidents. She was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 2006 for her contribution to Franco-Irish relations.

Marlowe is the author of How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine (Head of Zeus, 2024), Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk (Head of Zeus, 2021), Painted with Words (2011) and The Things I’ve See: Nine Lives of a Foreign Correspondent (2010).