Lara Marlowe (born 1 January 1957) is a US-born

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and

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, who was the US correspondent for ''

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'' (2009–2012) before returning to Paris in 2013 as the paper's Paris correspondent. Marlowe also spent 15 years as a journalist for ''

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''. She was married to

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for 12 years. On April 11, 2019, Marlowe became a naturalized French citizen.

Career

Born in

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, Marlowe received a

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in French from

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and a Master's in International Relations from

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; she also spent a year of study at the

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. She became a correspondent for ''The Irish Times'' in 1996, after resigning, in the wake of the

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, from ''Time'', where she was Beirut bureau chief, in protest at the reluctance of its editors to print anything critical of Israel.David Manning and Miriam Cotton, with Lara Marlowe
'An Interview with Lara Marlowe, Foreign Correspondent for the Irish Times,'
MediaBite 13 June 2008 She regularly reported from

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following the 2003 US-led invasion thereof. She has been a guest contributor to many broadcast and print outlets. Marlowe is a leading journalist on the

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as well as domestic French politics. For her work, she was made Chevalier of the

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in 2006.Patrick Smyth
'French honour 'Irish Times' journalist,'
The

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24 June 2006. She is a regular contributor to

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in Ireland. While based in Washington D.C. for ''The Irish Times'', Marlowe traveled twice to Haiti reporting on the immediate aftermath of its catastrophic earthquake in January 2010, and again in July 2010. Marlowe has written three books: ''The Things I've Seen'' (2010), ''Painted with Words'' (2011) and ''Love in a Time of War'' (2021). The last book is a memoir of the period she worked with Fisk.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marlowe, Lara 1957 births Living people University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Paris alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur The Irish Times people