Rukmini Callimachi

Rukmini Maria Callimachi (born Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian American journalist and poet.

Life

She left Romania during the communist regime with her mother, father and grandmother, for Switzerland and then the United States. She graduated from Dartmouth College, and from Exeter College, Oxford, with a masters in linguistics. In 2000, she co-led the Royal Geographical Society's expedition to Tibet.

Career

She began as a freelancer for Time magazine in New Delhi, India. She joined the Associated Press in Portland, Oregon, in 2003. She spent a year in New Orleans documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She began reporting out of Dakar, Senegal, as a West African correspondent for The AP in late 2006.

Her poetry has been published in The American Scholar, Oxford poetry, Black Warrior Review.

Awards

• 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner "for her in-depth investigation of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa"
• 2009 Michael Kelly Award finalist
• 2007 Sidney Hillman Foundation Award
• 2004 John M. Templeton Religion Story of the Year award
• 1998 Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry

Works

• "Gabon casts first votes after dictator's death". The Associated Press. Aug 30, 2009.
• "Opium addictions grip families in Afghanistan's remote villages". The Boston Globe. August 9, 2009.
• "Afghan women candidates campaign in burqas". The Taiwan News. 2009-07-30.
• "Ruler with 45 homes among world's most corrupt". The Taiwan News. 2009-06-22.
• "'Gabon weeps' for strongman despite lost riches". FreeLibrary. Jun 20, 2009.
• "Somali pirates held after attack off the Seychelles". The Scotsman. 29 April 2009.
• When the lights go out, students take off to airport. 21 July 2007. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
• "Mt. St. Helens' Victims Remembered". The Los Angeles Times. May 15, 2005.
• "Adidas Feeling Pressure From Nike on Home Turf". The Los Angeles Times. November 26, 2004.
• "Banks Look to Cash In by Providing Personal Touches". The Los Angeles Times. August 23, 2004.
• "All the Comforts of Home". The Los Angeles Times. August 18, 2004.
• "Bioengineered Grass Is Cause for Growing Concern". The Los Angeles Times. May 10, 2004.

External links

• "Journalist's twitter"
• "Rukmini Callimachi's LinkedIn"
• "Callimachi", bnet
• "RUKMINI CALLIMACHI", Free Library
• "RUKMINI CALLIMACHI", Newsvine

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