Michela Wrong is a distinguished international journalist, and has worked as a foreign correspondent covering events across the African continent for Reuters, the BBC and the Financial Times.Based on her experiences in Africa, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, her first book, won the PEN James Sterne Prize for non-fiction. Her book I Didn't Do It for You (2006) builds upon her shocking experiences, and focuses on the African nation of Eritrea.In 2015, she published Borderlines, her first novel.Michela Wrong is based in London.