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Anna Badkhen

Anna Badkhen
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Anna Badkhen

Anna Badhken was born in the Soviet Union and moved to a Massachusetts suburb in 2004. She has been covering conflicts since 2001, first for the San Francisco Chronicle, and later, for such publications as The New Republic, The Boston Globe, The... Read full bio

Author Revealed:
Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
A. Poor grammar.
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Peace Meals will be released on October 25, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Oct 25, 2011
Peace Meals is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 25, 2011
Peace Meals will be released on October 12, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 12, 2010
Peace Meals is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 12, 2010
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your biggest pet peeve?
Sep 21, 2010
Author Revealed Answer:
Is there a book you love to reread?
Sep 21, 2010
Sep 21, 2010

Anna Badkhen Revealed

Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. Poor grammar. Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Walking. Which is almost the same as writing: you look busy. Q. Is there a book you love to reread? A. Yes. Poetry: Galway Kinnell, Gerald Stern, WS Merwin, Robert Hass, Zbigniew Herbert, Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Larry Levis. Rumi. Poetry is magic: the right poem always finds you. The same goes for much of Jorge Luis Borges's writing, I think. Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers? A. Love language. Take in the world with your heart open. Break rules. Don't limit yourself to one sentence if you must say more. Learn more about Anna Badkhen

Authors on the Web

Foreign Policy Magazine, April 24, 2012
..." -- Peter Bergen A new FP Want to understand the disaster that is the war in Afghanistan? Anna Badkhen’s extraordinary account of a year in Northern Afghanistan is a travel guide to a conflict that has raged for the last decade, with little end in...
Media Bistro, April 18, 2012
...everyone, right? In a recent internal memo, Foreign Policy Editor-in-Chief Susan Glasser announces their new eBook. Written by Anna Badkhen, the book recounts her year-long voyage to northern Afghanistan. Glasser calls it ?haunting? and ?beautifully...
Huffington Post, February 23, 2012
...our thoughts. Fortunately, there are a few journalists who want us to pay attention. One of them is Anna Badkhen, a 30-something Russian ex-pat who has been logging some of the most impressive dispatches from Afghanistan to be found. Unlike many of...
Huffington Post, February 23, 2012
...our thoughts. Fortunately, there are a few journalists who want us to pay attention. One of them is Anna Badkhen, a 30-something Russian ex-pat who has been logging some of the most impressive dispatches from Afghanistan to be found. Unlike many of her...