Ed Vulliamy

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Edward Sebastian Vulliamy (born August 1, 1954 in London ) is a British journalist who has written for the Guardian and the Observer for over 30 years . He has received several awards for his reports, including Foreign Reporter of the Year in 1996 .

Life

Vulliamy, son of the architect John Vulliamy and the children's book author Shirley Hughes (* 1927), grew up in Notting Hill . He studied at University College School and Hertford College , Oxford. He finished his studies with a thesis on the Northern Ireland conflict .

From 1980 to 1985 he was involved in productions of the British documentary series "World in Action". From 1989 he worked as a reporter for the Guardian. From 1990 to 1994 he reported as Rome correspondent on Southern Europe and in a series of articles on the machinations of the Mafia in Italy, a topic that continues to occupy him to the present day.

During the Bosnian War in 1992 he and Penny Marshall from ITN gained access to the notorious camps in Omarska and Trnopolje . The report and the pictures in the Guardian about the catastrophic conditions in the camps went around the world and subsequently led to their closure. In 2006 he testified as a witness before the Hague Tribunal in the trial of Slobodan Praljak .

In 1994/1995 and from 1997 to 2003 he was New York correspondent for the Observer. In addition to the current political events of the time, he reported on society, sports and culture in the United States, and organized crime in Mexico .

In 2002 he published an essay in the Observer together with the London journalist Jason Burke in which the plans of George W. Bush and Tony Blair for a war against Iraq were discussed after detailed documents concerning a future war against Iraq were unknown Source leaked. In 2013, he suffered a serious accident, which resulted in a lengthy recovery process, and which finally led to his departure from the Guardian and the Observer in October 2016, to which he continues to work as a freelancer.

Private

In 2018 he published his memoirs under the title “When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace”, in which he talks about his war experiences and his love for classical music, jazz and folk.

Ed Vulliamy is married to Louisa Sanders , who works as a journalist for the Independent . Their daughter, Clara Vulliamy, is a book illustrator.

Publications (selection)

Vulliamy filmed for the BBC the TV feature "Bosnia's Last Testament" (1993) and reported in 1996 for the BBC in the radio essay "Points of Departure" (1996) on the war in Bosnia.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ed Vulliamy, Author and Journalist Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, accessed April 8, 2019
  2. ↑ Filmography IMDb
  3. ^ Ed Vulliamy in Rome The Guardian, November 2, 1991, accessed April 8, 2019
  4. ↑ Tale of two drugs lords: from Cosa Nostra to Guzmán - it's strictly business , The Guardian, February 17, 2019, accessed April 8, 2019
  5. ↑ Marcus Tanner: UK's Vulliamy Recalls Encounters with Belligerent Praljak BalkanInsight, November 30, 2017, accessed April 8, 2019
  6. ^ The Story of the Camps The Guardian, January 18, 1998, accessed April 8, 2019
  7. ^ Edward Vulliamy , accessed April 8, 2019
  8. ↑ Jason Burke, Ed Vulliamy: War clouds gather as hawks lay their plans The Observer, July 14, 2002, accessed April 2, 2019
  9. ↑ Ed Vulliamy: Louder than bombs: my journey in war and music , The Guardian, August 26, 2018, accessed April 2, 2019
  10. ↑ Media families; 12. The Saunders & the Vulliamys The Independent, March 5, 1997, accessed April 8, 2019
  11. ↑ Anna Carey 'I don't get creative block': Children's author Shirley Hughes on her 70-year career The Irish Times, September 2, 2017, accessed April 8, 2019
  12. ↑ BBC, Radio 4 FM, November 29, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Vulliamy, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vulliamy, Edward Sebastian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH London