Laurence Deonna

Laurence Deonna (29 January 1937 – 2 August 2023) was a Swiss journalist, writer and photographer who in the late 1960s became a celebrated war reporter in the Middle-East.

[1] In 1987, on the basis of her articles, books and photographs promoting international understanding and improvements to the status of women, she was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education.

[6] In 1967, invited to report on the Six-Day War, she embarked on a long career as a journalist in the Middle-East, where she took a special interest in the lives of Arab women.

Realizing that books offered a more lasting way than newspapers of covering countries in depth, she went on to publish many lengthy accounts of her trips abroad over the next 40 years.

[6] Her works not only focussed on women but revealed her firm conviction that many of the world's problems could be solved if greater concern was devoted to achieving peace.