Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny (born April 25, 1958 in London ) is a British journalist and author.

Life

Misha Glenny is a son of the British Slavist Michael Glenny . He first attended a school in Notting Hill and, after the family moved to Oxford, the College School of Magdalen College . He studied at the University of Bristol and Charles University in Prague . After graduating, he became a European correspondent, first for The Guardian and then for the BBC . In the 1990s, he mainly reported on the Yugoslavia conflict . For three years he managed an NGO that is active in building up the states of Serbia , Macedonia and Kosovo . Glenny wrote three books on the political situation in Central and Eastern Europe. He then shifted his journalistic focus to organized crime and cybercrime.

In 2018, the series McMafia , based on one of his books, began broadcasting.

Glenny has two children with his first wife and one adult child with his second wife, the journalist Kirsty Lang.

Fonts (selection)

• The Rebirth Of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy . London: Penguin Books, 1990
• The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War . London-New York: Penguin, 1992
  • Yugoslavia: the war that came to Europe . Gordon Price in Romanian. With a preface by Peter Glotz . Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1993
• The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 . New York: Viking, 2000, reprinted 2012
• McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld . New York: Knopf Books, 2008
  • McMafia: the limitless world of organized crime . Translation Sebastian Vogel . Munich: Dt. Verl.-Anstalt, 2008
• DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
  • Cybercrime: Crime and War in the Digital Age . Translation Sebastian Vogel . Munich: Dt. Verl.-Anstalt, 2012
• Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio . London: The Bodley Head, 2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Misha Glenny in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Misha Glenny in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Misha Glenny at perlentaucher.de
• Misha Glenny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Alice Douglas: My Family Values , Interview, in: The Guardian , February 28, 2009
• Misha Glenny , contributions to The Guardian
• Misha Glenny , Contribution to the London Review of Books
• Misha Glenny , Contribution to the New York Review of Books