Jean Hatzfeld began his career as a journalist in 1976 at the French daily '' Libération '' . He also wrote for other newspapers and made documentaries for television . He covered the Middle-Eastern conflict , the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland , the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the demise of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu . He became a long term war correspondent in the Lebanon , at the eve of the 80 's . He reported from the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s ( where he was seriously injured ) and he also spents months in Lebanon , Israel and Iraq , then else countries . In 1994 , Jean Hatzfeld went to east Africa to report on the Rwandan genocide for '' Liberation '' . Dedicating himself to genocide research , he eventually published a book on the genocide called '' Dans le nu de la vie '' ( 2000 ) . Primarily the stories of Tutsi survivors , the book won numerous awards : the Prix Culture 2000 , the Prix Pierre Mille and the Prix France Culture . Hatzfeld followed up with a volume of stories by Hutu killers ; this book '' Une Saison de machettes '' won the Prix Femina in 2003 and the Prix Jossef Kessel in 2004 . A third volume on the genocide '' La stratégie des antilopes '' won the Prix Médicis and the Prix Ryszard-Kapuściński . Then came '' Englebert des Collines '' ( 2013 ) and '' Un Papa de sang '' ( 2015 ) . He also wrote five novels . Several books have been translated into several languages , among them into English translated by Joshua David Jordan and by Linda Coverdale who won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for her work on Machete Season
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Jean Hatzfeld