Alexander Norman

Alexander Norman is a British author and journalist who writes on religion, culture and the exotic margins of experience. His biography The Dalai Lama presents the life of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, placing the Tibetan leader's spiritual and political career in its modern context.

Norman has reported from battle zones and refugee camps across South Asia and the Middle East, and authored works on military history, monks and the contours of belief. A careful, empathetic interviewer, he turned the Dalai Lama's story into a portrait of a man trying to hold a nation's soul together in exile.