Mariane Pearl

Award winning journalist and writer

She was five months pregnant when her husband, The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and brutally murdered by a militant Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan in 2002. Determined not to be broken, she wrote A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl (Scribner) . First published in the United States in 2003, Mariane’s memoir celebrating the values  of humanism and dignity is a detailed account of the investigation led in Pakistan to rescue her husband. The book won international praise and was translated into 15 languages. In 2007, it was released as a major feature movie starring Angelina Jolie in the role of Mariane Pearl.

Her second book “In search of hope” (Powerhouse) is a collection of profiles of extraordinary women around the world. The column first appeared in Glamour magazine, the largest circulation woman magazine in the world. Those “Global Diaries” feature women from Cambodia, Cuba, Liberia, Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Porto Rico, Uganda, Senegal, Italy, France, the US, Russia, the North Pole and more. They are focused on women who are role models in the way they used their own lives to transform their environment.

Mariane traveled to places as diverse as the US and the Middle East reporting and producing documentaries on the sensitive issues surrounding the application of genetic technology to contemporary challenges. Biological memory, the second report in this series, won the prestigious Science and Society Award at the International Festival of Scientific Film, held in Canada. In Paris, Mariane covered immigration and identity issues, using her daily radio program that she developed, produced and hosted for Radio France International to explore issues of society, identity and politics. The program helped sharpen her conviction that journalism has the power to cross cultural boundaries and encourage dialogue among people.
    
Mariane Pearl is also a contributor to publications such as The New York Times, The Sunday Times, the Conde Nast traveler, Self Magazine and more.
She is the recipient of the National Headliners award for magazine writing, the Time Warner women award, the Woman of the year award, The White House project award, the AWRT (American Women in Radio and Television) award, the Internews award for excellence in international reporting, the Vital Voices award,,  El Mundo editorial award in Spain, the Prix “Vérité” in France for excellence in non fiction writing.