Carlotta Gall is a British journalist who covers Afghanistan, as well as Pakistan for The New York Times. Carlotta Gall is a daughter of the British journalist Sandy Gall and Eleanor Gall. She was educated in England and read Russian and French at Newnham College, Cambridge. She received a Masters from City University, London in International Relations and Journalism. She started her newspaper career with The Moscow Times, in Moscow, in 1994, and covered the first war in Chechnya intensively for the paper, among other stories all over the former Soviet Union. She also freelanced for British papers as well as American publications. She is the co-author with Thomas de Waal, of Chechnya: A Small Victorious War, Macmillan, UK, 1996, also published as Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus, New York University Press, U.S.A., 1997. The book was awarded the James Cameron prize in the UK in 1997. Gall was awarded the Kurt Schork award for international freelance journalism in 2002, the Interaction award for outstanding international reporting in 2005, and was awarded the Weintal Award for diplomatic reporting by Georgetown University.