Anjan Sundaram is an artist and writer who has been called "one of the great reporters of our age" by the BBC special correspondent Fergal Keane. He has been an artist-in-residence at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Art Omi, and Campo Air, and a Fellow at TED, The Berggruen Institute, and Skoll. He has received a Frontline Club Award, a Moore Prize, and a Reuters Prize, with citations comparing him to the Nobel Laureates V.S. Naipaul and William Faulkner. Sundaram’s work centers forgotten conflicts and communities in personal and non-authoritative narratives that evoke wonder by immersing audiences in the reporter’s experience on global frontlines.
Sundaram’s books have been featured by Christiane Amanpour and Fareed Zakaria on CNN, on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and on Democracy Now by Amy Goodman. He writes for Granta magazine, The New York Times, and the New York Review of Books. His two TED talks have received over 1.5 million views. He graduated from Yale and has a Ph.D. in literature from The University of East Anglia.
At MacDowell, Sundaram completed a draft of his long-form journalism book, DOUBLE EXPOSURE: Two Reporters in the Climate War, which will be published by Chelsea Green/Rizzoli in 2027. During his residency he worked on an excerpt titled, "We Think They'll Kill Someone" that was published in the March 2026 edition of The New York Review of Books.
