Born in Paris in 1964, Marion Van Renterghem has been a senior reporter at Le Mondesince 1998. She began contributing to the daily in 1988, as a freelance book reviewer. Following a trip to Hungary in 1993, she wrote a series of articles on Eastern Europe, and worked as a book critic from 1994 to 1998. In 2003, she won the Albert Londres prize, awarded yearly to the "best senior reporter in print journalism".