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Delphine Schrank

Delphine Schrank is the author of the critically acclaimed The Rebel of Rangoon; A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma (Nation Books, July 14, 2015), a work of narrative nonfiction based on four years reporting undercover among dissidents in Burma. A contributing editor to the Virginia  Quarterly Review and a co-founding member of Deca Stories, she was the Burma correspondent for The Washington Post, where she was an editor and staff writer. Her award-winning journalism has also appeared in Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, Time, Mother Jones and The Responsibility to Protect; The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Archive Exhibitions Featuring Delphine Schrank

A Peaceful Rebellion, The Faces of Dissent in Burma

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2015

Photographer Chris Bartlett and journalist Delphine Schrank, author of The Rebel of Rangoon; A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma (Nation Books, July 2015), combine the ineffable image with the poetry of language to convey the hidden and very human experience of dissidence: of a social movement, until now largely closed from the eyes of the world, whose members dared across five decades of brutally repressive military rule to wrest their country back and deliver it to freedom and democracy.

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