Léa Polverini
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Léa Polverini is a French freelance journalist and editor who covers international news and human rights abuses.
She regularly writes for Slate.fr about East Asian and Middle Eastern and North African issues. She worked as a special correspondent in Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Polverini contributes to various media outlets, including Le Monde diplomatique, The Guardian, L’Orient-Le Jour, and Jeune Afrique.
She won the European Press Prize's Distinguished Reporting Award in 2024, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Kurt Schork Freelance Journalist Award in 2023 for her reports in Kazakhstan about Chinese concentration camps’ survivors, a work that was also nominated for the 2023 Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents.
She holds a doctorate in comparative literature and teaches at Aix-Marseille University in France, focusing on Arab literature.
