If we could at least provide a bit of hope to a few anguished individuals, it would lend meaning to our existence.
Sergio Vieira de Mello (Rio-de-Janeiro 1948 - Baghdad 2003), in referring to his personal involvement with the victims of the war in Bosnia.
Born in Lyon, France, Annick Stevenson is an international journalist, having spent more than twenty years with the United Nations, author of the portrait of Jean Giono's long-time mistress and muse, Blanche Meyer et Jean Giono, and co-author of a book in memory of the late Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed in the bombing of the UN headquarters in Bagdad, Sergio Vieira de Mello: An Exceptional Man. She has written for a large number of newspapers and magazines throughout her career and has also translated or co-translated several works. She is currently at work on two additional UN-related projects: the translation of the portrait of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan written by his long-standing spokesperson, Fred Eckhart, and a book to be published together with a documentary on the United Nations by filmmaker Romuald Sicora in the fall of 2008.
Annick Stevenson currently lives in Haute Savoie near the city of Geneva where she writes for the Lyon daily Le Progrès.
