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American journalist
Serge Schmemann
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Born
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1945-04-12
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April 12, 1945
(age 79)
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Nationality
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Occupation(s)
| Writer and editorial page editor
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Parent
| Alexander Schmemann
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Serge Schmemann
(born April 12, 1945) is a French-born American
writer
and member of the editorial board of
The New York Times
who specializes in international affairs.
[1]
He was editorial page editor of the
Paris
-based
International Herald Tribune
, the erstwhile global edition of
The New York Times
, from 2003 until its dissolution in 2013. Earlier in his career, he worked for the
Associated Press
and was a bureau chief and editor for
The New York Times
.
[2]
Life and career
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Born in
France
, the son of
Alexander Schmemann
and Juliana Ossorguine (a descendant of
Juliana of Lazarevo
, a Russian Orthodox Saint),
[3]
he moved to the United States in 1951. He grew up speaking Russian at home, but visited his ancestral homeland for the first time only in 1980 when he arrived with his family as
Moscow
correspondent for the Associated Press. It was not until 1990 that the Soviet authorities allowed him to visit his grandparents' home village near
Kaluga
. His reflections on the village's changing fate provided the subject matter for his memoirs, published in 1997.
[4]
A 1963 graduate of the
Kent School
in Kent, CT, he received his undergraduate degree in English from
Harvard University
in 1967 and an
M.A.
in
Slavic studies
from
Columbia University
in 1971.
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Writing for
The New York Times
, he won the
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
in 1991 for his coverage of the
German reunification
,
[2]
which he also made the subject of a book.
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The September 12, 2001,
New York Times
featured a front-page article by Schmemann about the
September 11 attacks
.
[7]
He won an
Emmy Award
(Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing) in 2003 for the
Discovery Channel
documentary
Mortal Enemies
.
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Schmemann has three children and lives in the District of Columbia.
Awards
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- 1991 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the reunification of Germany
[2]
- 1998
PEN
/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for
Echoes of a Native Land
Bibliography
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References
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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting ? International from 1942?1947
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1951?1975
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1976?2000
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2001?2025
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