Rod Nordland

Rod Nordland has worked as a foreign correspondent in more than 150 countries and has been variously posted in Bangkok, Beirut, Baghdad, Cairo, Rome, Sarajevo, San Salvador, Islamabad, London and Kabul. Now international correspondent at large for The New York Times, he is based in Afghanistan as the paper's Kabul bureau chief.

He came to The Times from Newsweek, where he was the magazine’s chief foreign correspondent, based in London, Beirut and Baghdad. During three decades abroad, he has covered every war that involved Americans and several that did not. He began his foreign reporting career for his hometown paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, covering the Far East and Central America in the 1980s.

Mr. Nordland was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for news, and he was also a finalist for a Pulitzer in international reporting from Southeast Asia; he won two George Polk awards; several Overseas Press Club awards; the 2013 Heywood Broun Award; and a score of others. He was a 1989 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, the recipient of the Signet Medal from the Signet Society at Harvard in 2016, and is a member of the advisory board of the Tufts University Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, the National Press Club in Washington and the Associazione della Stampa Estera in Italia.

He is the author of the nonfiction book “The Lovers: Afghanistan’s Romeo & Juliet,” published in January 2016 by Ecco/HarperCollins in New York.