Ep. 162 Matti Friedman

About this episode

Matti Friedman discusses his experiences as a journalist and his new book on heroism in Nazi Europe.

Award-winning journalist and author, Matti Friedman has worked as a reporter in Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Moscow, the Caucasus, and Washington, DC. A former Associated Press correspondent, his work has appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, the Atlantic, and elsewhere. He's currently writes from Israel for The Free Press. The author of five nonfiction books that have been translated into a dozen languages and have so far been awarded The Sami Rohr Prize, the Natan Prize, the ALA’s Sophy Brody Medal. His new book is Out of the Sky, Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe , just out from Speigel and Grau. The QWERTY podcast is brought to you by the book The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life . Read it, and begin your own journey to writing what you know. To learn more, join The Memoir Project free newsletter list and keep up to date on all our free webinars, instructive posts and online classes in how to write memoir , as well as our talented, available memoir editors and memoir coaches, podcast guests and more.

People in this episode

Guest: Matti Friedman

Topics covered

• journalism
• nonfiction
• writing
• heroism
• history

Keywords

• Israel
• Lebanon
• Morocco
• Moscow
• Caucasus
• Washington DC
• The Free Press
• The Sami Rohr Prize
• Natan Prize
• ALA’s Sophy Brody Medal

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life, Out of the Sky, Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe

Books & works: The Sami Rohr Prize, Sophy Brody Medal, Out of the Sky, Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

Places: Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Moscow, Caucasus, Washington, DC

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