Suzy Hansen

Journalist and editor living in Istanbul. Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and the winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, GQ, Newsweek, the Financial Times, Bookforum, Bidoun and other publications. For over two years, she was a senior editor at the New York Observer, and was also an editor in the Books section at Salon.

Posts and Dispatches from Suzy Hansen:

• The Erdogan Loyalists and the Syrian Refugees
  THE NEW YORK TIMES – Over the last five years, millions of Syrians, most of whom are Arabs, have flooded into Turkey. The newcomers seem foreign to most Turks, but the two peoples have memories of an ancestral divorce. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/magazine/erdogans-people.html...

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• “A Finance Minister Fit for a Greek Tragedy”
  New York Times Magazine — Suzy Hansen’s latest article takes an in-depth look at the tactics of Greek Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Greece’s precarious place in the European Union.  Varoufakis, only four months in to his term, is determined to improve Greece’s economic situation regardless of the political cost to him. Read the article here....

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