Serge Schmemann

Serge Schmemann (born April 12, 1945) is a writer and was editorial page editor of the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of the New York Times which ceased publication under that name in 2013. Earlier in his career, he worked for the Associated Press and was a bureau chief and editor for The New York Times.^[1]

Life and career[]

Born in France, the son of Alexander Schmemann and Juliana Ossorguine (a descendant of Juliana of Lazarevo, a Russian Orthodox Saint),^[2] he moved to the United States as a child, 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.^[3]

Writing for The New York Times, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1991 for his coverage of the reunification of Germany,^[1] which he also made the subject of a book.^[4] The September 12, 2001 New York Times featured a front-page article by Schmemann about the September 11 attacks.^[5] He won an Emmy Award (Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing) in 2003 for the Discovery Channel documentary Mortal Enemies.^[1]

Schmemann has three children and lives in Paris.

Awards[]

• 1991 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for coverage of the reunification of Germany^[1]
• 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for Echoes of a Native Land

Bibliography[]

• Schmemann, Serge (2007) [2006]. When the Wall Came Down: The Berlin Wall and the Fall of Soviet Communism. New York Times Books. Kingfisher. ISBN 978-0-7534-6153-2. OCLC 61303439.
• Schmemann, Serge (1999). Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village. Vintage. ISBN 978-0-679-75707-8. OCLC 36074523.

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