In conversation with Lis Harris, Writing
Peter Godwin has served as East European correspondent and diplomatic correspondent for the London Sunday Times, and chief correspondent for BBC television’s flagship foreign affairs program, Assignment, making documentaries in such places as Cuba, Panama, Indonesia, Pakistan, Spain, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltics, and the Balkans as it descended into war. He is the author of six non-fiction books: 'Rhodesians Never Die' - The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia c.1970 - 1980 (with Ian Hancock), Wild at Heart: Man and Beast in Southern Africa (with photos by Chris Johns and foreword by Nelson Mandela), The Three of Us - a New Life in New York (with Joanna Coles), Mukiwa, which received the George Orwell prize and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun - a Memoir of Africa, which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe, was selected by the New Yorker as a best book of the year. He has taught writing at Columbia, Princeton, and the New School, and was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. From 2012-15 he served as president of the PEN American Center. He is an Orwell fellow and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
