Doug Saunders

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Douglas Richard Alan Saunders , as author: Doug Saunders (* 1967 in Hamilton (Ontario) , Canada ) is a British- Canadian journalist and author .

Life

Saunders enjoyed his upbringing in Toronto , where he attended York University for seven years without graduating. He gained his first journalistic experience as head of the Ottawa office of the Canadian University Press . At the beginning of the 1990s he became known for his then new journalistic activity as an online researcher and computer-aided reporting. In 1995 he was hired as a feature writer for the Canadian daily The Globe and Mail . By 1996 he had already established a reputation as a specialist in popular topics from the world of media, culture and advertising. He became even better known in Canada when he took up his position as a correspondent in Los Angeles in California with his reports on the social changes in the USA . Since 2004 he has lived in London as head of the European office of his newspaper .

On his extensive travels through Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent, he found the material for his books published so far (2012), the worldwide migration movements to the cities and the uprising movements ( Arabellion ) in the Islamic world . Within three years he visited places as diverse as Berlin-Kreuzberg , the East End in London, the banlieue around Paris , the favelas of Rio de Janeiro , the slums of Lagos in Nigeria , Bombay in India or Cairo in Egypt and the Barrios in Los Angeles.

Prizes and awards

  • 1988, 1999 and 2000: Canada's National Newspaper Award for critical reports, respectively
  • 2006: National Newspaper Award for Best Columnist in Canada
  • 2010/2011: Donner Prize (Canada) for his work Arrival City
  • 2011: Finalist Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book on international topics
  • 2011: Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing also for Arrival City
  • 2016: Erich Schelling Architecture Prize (Schelling Architecture Theory Prize)

Publications

  • Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World . Knopf Canada, Toronto 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-39689-1 (paperback).
    • German: Arrival City. Millions of people are moving from the countryside to the cities across all borders. Our future depends on them , translated by Werner Roller. Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89667-392-3 .
  • The Myth of the Muslim Tide , Knopf Canada, Toronto 2012, ISBN 978-0-307-36207-0 .
    • German: Myth of foreign infiltration: A settlement , translated by Werner Roller. Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89667-486-9 .
  • The reconstruction of the Zwischenstadt. In: Klaus Schäfer (Ed.): Departure from the Zwischenstadt. Urbanization through migration and mixed use . transcript UrbanStudies, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4365-7 , pp. 20–39

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Young generation for the big cities in: FAZ from October 8, 2011, page L37
personal data
SURNAME Saunders, Doug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douglas Richard Alan Saunders, full name
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton, Ontario , Canada