Robert Fisk Receives 2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize
Robert Fisk, British journalist and author of The Great War for Civilisation, has been awarded the Lannan Foundation's 2006 Lifetime Achievement Prize for Cultural Freedom. For the past three decades, Fisk has reported on the politics, wars, and civil upheavals of the Middle East. He is one of the most highly decorated foreign correspondents in the world, holding 28 press awards, including the British International Journalist of the Year (seven times), European International Journalist of the Year, and the United Nations Press Award. He currently serves as Middle East correspondent for The Independent of London.
