Yaroslav Trofimov
Encyclopedia
Yaroslav Trofimov is an award-winning author
and journalist
. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
since 1999, covering the Middle East, Africa and, recently South and Southeast Asia.
He shared in the Overseas Press Club
award for foreign reporting on India, and won the SAJA Daniel Pearl
award for the outstanding story on South Asia, among other honors.
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
since 1999, covering the Middle East, Africa and, recently South and Southeast Asia.
He shared in the Overseas Press Club
Overseas Press Club
The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member...
award for foreign reporting on India, and won the SAJA Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...
award for the outstanding story on South Asia, among other honors.
Books
- "Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu," (Henry HoltHenry Holt and CompanyHenry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt...
, New York, 2005; ISBN 978-0312425111). A travelogue through the post-2001 Muslim world, "Faith at War" has been long-listed for the Lettre Ulysses AwardLettre Ulysses AwardThe Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage has been given annually since 2003 for the best texts in the genre of literary reportage, which must have been first published during the previous two years...
for literary journalism in 2006.
- "The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al QaedaThe Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al QaedaThe Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda is a non-fiction book by Wall Street Journal correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov about the 1979 Grand Mosque Seizure in Mecca....
," (Doubleday, New York, 2007; ISBN 978-0385519250). A historical thriller about the Grand Mosque SeizureGrand Mosque SeizureThe Grand Mosque Seizure on November 20, 1979, was an armed attack and takeover by Islamist dissidents of the Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam...
in MeccaMeccaMecca is a city in the Hijaz and the capital of Makkah province in Saudi Arabia. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level...
in 1979 by the precursors of Al Qaeda. The book was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers award and won the Gold Medal of the Washington Institute Book Prize, a literary award established to highlight nonfiction books about the Middle East.