Rémy Ourdan

Rémy Ourdan is a French journalist, war correspondent for the newspaper Le Monde, and documentary filmmaker.

Biography

Journalism

Rémy Ourdan began as a reporter in 1992 in besieged Sarajevo. He covers for three decades the main conflicts in the world, as well as post-war, human rights and international justice issues. He also continues his long-term work on Sarajevo.

Film

Rémy Ourdan is the director of the documentary film The Siege^[1][2] (co-directed with Patrick Chauvel, Agat Films & Cie, 2016).^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Various Publications

• "Après-guerre(s)" (foreword & "Sarajevo, après le siège"), edited by Rémy Ourdan, Autrement, Paris, 2001^[10]
• "A War, and Ricochets" ("WAR", VII, "WAR", de.MO, New York, 2003)^[11][12]
• "America vs Al Qaeda : A Foe's Best Friend" (Dispatches, "Beyond Iraq", 2008)^[13][14]
• "Le Monde, les grands reportages 1944-2009" (Les Arènes, Paris, 2009)^[15]
• "Sarajevo, a love story"^[16] (foreword & "Soldier's Words", "Bosnia 1992-1995", edited by Jon Jones, Sarajevo, 2012)^[17]
• "Le Monde, les grands reportages 1944-2012" (Pocket, Paris, 2012)^[18]
• "Première nuit à Sarajevo" ("Robert Capa - 100 photos pour la liberté de la presse", Reporters Sans Frontières, Paris, 2015)^[19]
• "Partez ou vous allez tous mourir" (introduction, Bruno Philip, "Aung San Suu Khi, l’icône fracassée", Les Equateurs, Paris, 2017)^[20]

Other

Rémy Ourdan organized on April 6, 2012, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Bosnia, a reunion called "Sarajevo 2012",^[21][22] for which hundreds of war reporters came back to Sarajevo.^[23] He published, with Jon Jones and Gary Knight, the photo book Bosnia 1992-1995 (edited by Jon Jones, 2012),^[24] for which he wrote the foreword Sarajevo, a love story.^[25]

Rémy Ourdan is a co-founder and was the first director of the WARM Foundation on contemporary conflicts^[26] (2012-2019),^[27] based in Sarajevo.^[28][29][30]

Awards

• Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents 2000^[31] for a story on the war in Sierra Leone (Le Monde, 1999).
• Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents 2012, Ouest-France/Jean-Marin Prize^[32] for a story on the Mexican drug war in Ciudad Juarez (Le Monde, 2012).^[33]
• Gold FIPA for Best Documentary 2016^[34][35] for The Siege (Agat Films & Cie, 2016).