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In a Sunday Times piece entitled Courage Knows No Gender, she quoted Martha Gellhorn, who said, Feminists nark me. I think they’ve done a terrible disservice to women, branding us as ‘women’s writers.’ Nobody says men writers; before, we were all simply writers.

Lindsey Hilsum

In a Sunday Times piece entitled Courage Knows No Gender, she quoted Martha Gellhorn, who said, Feminists nark me. I think they’ve done a terrible disservice to women, branding us as ‘women’s writers.’ Nobody says men writers; before, we were all simply writers.

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About Lindsey Hilsum

Lindsey Hilsum (born 3 August 1958) is an English television journalist and writer. She is the International Editor for Channel 4 News, and has reported from six continents, including coverage of the major conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Kosovo, Rwanda and Ukraine in the past two decades. She is also a regular contributor to The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, New Statesman, and Granta.
Hilsum is author of the books Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution (2012) and In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin (2018). She is the recipient of several awards, among which are the Patron's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 2017, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the biography category for In Extremis.