Ros Wynne-Jones is an award-winning journalist who has worked in conflict zones around the world from South Sudan to East Timor, Kosovo to Rwanda.
Bitten by the travel bug at the age of 17 when she travelled across China, Ros fell in love with Africa while reporting from a dozen countries on the continent over the past decade. Covering stories as diverse as the HIV crisis in southern Africa and the arms trade in northern Kenya, she recently reported from the Darfuri refugee camps inside Eastern Chad.
During the Kosovo war, Ros once imported a charity consignment of nail polish into refugee camps on the border, after being inundated by requests from Kosovar Albanian women.
She studied Mandarin Chinese and has a degree from Oxford University in her own language, English.
Currently the Daily Mirror's Senior Feature Writer, Ros has been a staff writer on the Independent, Independent on Sunday, Daily Express and Sunday Mirror.
She has won two One World Media Awards in 2000 and 2006 for reporting from South Sudan and Rwanda, and in 1999 was Cosmopolitan magazine's Media Woman of the Year. In 2005 and 2006, her reports from Rwanda were shortlisted for National Press Awards.
The idea for Something Is Going To Fall Like Rain came from visits to the frontlines of the civil war in South Sudan between 1998 and 2001 – as the Government of Sudan practised the genocidal tactics it would later bring to Darfur.
During weeks spent in the field, Ros interviewed hundreds of Dinka tribes people – each one with extraordinary stories of resilience and friendship, humanity, determination and love.
Bitten by the travel bug at the age of 17 when she travelled across China, Ros fell in love with Africa while reporting from a dozen countries on the continent over the past decade. Covering stories as diverse as the HIV crisis in southern Africa and the arms trade in northern Kenya, she recently reported from the Darfuri refugee camps inside Eastern Chad.
During the Kosovo war, Ros once imported a charity consignment of nail polish into refugee camps on the border, after being inundated by requests from Kosovar Albanian women.
She studied Mandarin Chinese and has a degree from Oxford University in her own language, English.
Currently the Daily Mirror's Senior Feature Writer, Ros has been a staff writer on the Independent, Independent on Sunday, Daily Express and Sunday Mirror.
She has won two One World Media Awards in 2000 and 2006 for reporting from South Sudan and Rwanda, and in 1999 was Cosmopolitan magazine's Media Woman of the Year. In 2005 and 2006, her reports from Rwanda were shortlisted for National Press Awards.
The idea for Something Is Going To Fall Like Rain came from visits to the frontlines of the civil war in South Sudan between 1998 and 2001 – as the Government of Sudan practised the genocidal tactics it would later bring to Darfur.
During weeks spent in the field, Ros interviewed hundreds of Dinka tribes people – each one with extraordinary stories of resilience and friendship, humanity, determination and love.
Reportage Press is a new publishing house specialising in books on foreign affairs or set in foreign countries; non-fiction, fiction, essays, travel books, old travel memoirs, or just books written from a stranger’s view.
Daniela Norris and Shireen Anabtawi in discussion - October 12th, London Jewish Cultural Centre
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