Guillaume Pajot

Guillaume Pajot was selected for the 2025 Shortlist with The Poet’s Army.

Guillaume Pajot is a freelance reporter from France. He’s been covering Myanmar for more than a decade, from politics, child labour and wildlife trafficking to the current civil war. He writes for a wide range of French newspapers and magazines : XXI, M le magazine du Monde, Libération, GEO. His stories were shortlisted for the True Story Awards, the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Awards for War Correspondents, and twice for the Albert-Londres Prize. He also teaches profile writing and reporting at the Centre de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ) in Paris, his former journalism school.