Mark Fritz is a war correspondent and author. A native of Detroit and graduate of

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...

, he won a

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in 1995 for his stories concerning the

Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...

Journalism career

As a staff writer for the

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(AP), from 1984-1997, and again in 2003, Fritz reported on the reunification of

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, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Chechnya, and Liberia, among others. As an AP editor on the Foreign Desk, he filed the first U.S. bulletin on the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. He subsequently was named East Berlin correspondent, then West Africa bureau chief. Fritz also served a stint on the agency's computer-assisted investigative reporting team and as roving foreign correspondent for the International Desk in New York. He subsequently worked as a New York-based national writer for the ''

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'' and the ''

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'', and as an investigative reporter for ''

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''. Before returning to the AP in 2003, Fritz left the news business to perform humanitarian work in the

Darfur Darfur ( ; ar, دار فور, Dār Fūr, lit=Realm of the Fur) is a region of western Sudan. ''Dār'' is an Arabic word meaning "home f – the region was named Dardaju ( ar, دار داجو, Dār Dājū, links=no) while ruled by the Daju, ...

region of Sudan for the

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, and conduct war crimes investigations for

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in Uganda. Fritz's nonfiction book, ''Lost on Earth'', chronicles the stories of people uprooted by the wars that broke out at the end of the Cold War. He is also the author of the novel, ''Permanent Deadline''.

Works

* ''Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World''. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1999, , Trade paperback by Routledge, * ''Permanent Deadline''. Create Space. 2014 * ''The Mammoth Book Of War Correspondence'' 2001 New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.

Recognition

* 1995 -

for stories concerning the

. * 1995 -

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inaugural Jesse Laventhol Award for Deadline Writing * 1999 - ''Lost on Earth'' named one of the top five non-fiction books by Salon.com.Salon.com 1999 book awards
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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fritz, Mark Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners Living people Wayne State University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)