Nadene Ghouri biography
Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning journalist, writer and presenter.
Today she is a regular voice on BBC radio 4 current affairs, reporting on flagship weekly programmes such as Crossing Continents and The Report. She also writes ground breaking global investigations for the Mail on Sunday’s LIVE magazine and has previously been a reporter for Al Jazeera English.
She is co-author of Letters to my Daughters, the memoirs of female Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi. The book has been described as ‘spell-binding’, ‘powerful’ and ‘gripping’. It is now on release across Europe and Canada and will be published in the UK and USA later this year.
Nadene began her career as a social affairs specialist reporting on the underbelly of British society as News Editor of The Big Issue Magazine and as social affairs correspondent of the Times Educational Supplement, before later making the move into broadcasting as a reporter on BBC radio 5 live. In 2001 she covered the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, an experience which led to her not only swapping the UK for the life of a roving war reporter but also to briefly open a now legendary Kabul based hotel, Afghan Garden.
Since then Nadene has reported from conflicts in countries as diverse as Iran, DR Congo, Liberia, India, Gaza, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
She is a founding member of the Afghan foreign press association.
Nadene has been twice shortlisted for journalist of the year at the One World Media Awards (known as the ‘Oscars’ of foreign journalism). She has also been twice nominated for an Amnesty International Human Rights Media award. Nadene is also an experienced media development consultant who has helped to set up radio stations and newspapers all over the developing world, including one notable experience training radio reporters in Pakistan’s Swat valley as heavy artillery battles raged between the Taliban and the Pakistan military.
Nadene is a specialist in interviewing children and young people who have or are suffering trauma. Her widely acclaimed documentary series ‘Children of Conflict’ for Al Jazeera English explored the lives of children in conflict zones and allowed the children to tell their stories in their own words.
How I Found the Agency
I am incredibly excited to be working with an agent who has such a solid reputation and background in the industry.
Having just ghost written my first book where I dealt directly with a publisher I realised I really needed an agent to help me manage any future literary work. Having researched various agencies online I found Andrew Lownie.
I was attracted to Andrew’s agency because of the genres he specialises in, but also because I found his approach both welcoming and no nonsense at the same time.
Andrew agreed to meet with me and my initial impressions were confirmed. He was enthusiastic, honest and someone I really felt I could deal with. The fact that he already has many journalists on his author list and clearly has an affinity with us hacks was also a bonus.
