Oliver Bullough Explained

Oliver Bullough is a British writer. [1]

Early life

Bullough was born in 1977 and grew up on a sheep farm in Mid Wales.[2] [3] He studied History at Oxford University.[4]

Career

After leaving university, Bullough first acted in a friend's Edinburgh Fringe play.[5] In 1999, he bought the Lonely Planet Guide to Russia, took a Russian language course, and got hired by a Saint Petersburg English language magazine. [5] After a year, Bullough was employed by The Times of Central Asia, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.[5]

Bullough later worked as a journalist for Reuters.[2] He also covered the war in Chechnya.

Works

He is best known for his books Let Our Fame Be Great,[6] [7] [8] nominated for the Orwell Prize,[9] (set in the Caucasus Mountains) and The Last Man in Russia, nominated for the Dolman Prize and won the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award. Later books focused on financial crime, Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back,[10] Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything.[11] [12]

His work has appeared at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting,[13] and in GQ,[14] Granta,[15] and The Guardian.[16] [17] [18]

Bibliography

Personal life

He returned to Britain in 2006.[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Oliver Bullough . 14 April 2022 . churchillfellowship.org . en.
  2. Web site: Oliver Bullough . . 20 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170623131652/https://www.hayfestival.com/artist.aspx?artistid=3035 . 23 June 2017.
  3. News: Morphy . Jim . The Last Man in Russia by Oliver Bullough . 20 March 2022 . Wales Arts Review . 24 March 2014.
  4. Daniloff, Nicholas. (2012). Review of the book Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus. Journal of Cold War Studies 14(3), 220-222.
  5. News: Interview: Oliver Bullough, author . 20 March 2022 . . 19 February 2010 . en.
  6. Book: Bullough . Oliver . Let our fame be great : journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus . 2010 . Allen Lane . London . 9781846141416.
  7. Jones . Adam . Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus . Journal of Genocide Research . June 2011 . 13 . 1-2 . 199–202 . 10.1080/14623528.2011.554083.
  8. News: Mitchell . Allston . The Defiant People of the Caucasus . 20 March 2022 . The Global Dispatches . May 29, 2010 . Oliver Bullough talks to The Global Dispatches about his new book, 'Let our Fame be Great - Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus'.
  9. Web site: Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus . The Orwell Foundation . 20 March 2022.
  10. Book: Bullough . Oliver . Moneyland : why thieves and crooks now rule the world and how to take it back . 2018 . Allen . London . 9781781257937.
  11. Book: Bullough . Oliver . Butler to the world : how Britain helps the world's worst people launder money, commit crimes, and get away with anything . June 14, 2022 . St. Martin's Press . New York, NY . 9781250281920 . First U.S..
  12. News: Nixon . Simon . Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough review — how Britain became a dirty paradise for kleptocrats . 20 March 2022 . thetimes.co.uk . en.
  13. Web site: Oliver Bullough . . 20 March 2022 . en.
  14. News: Oliver Bullough . 20 March 2022 . . Condé Nast.
  15. Web site: Oliver Bullough . .
  16. News: Oliver Bullough . 20 March 2022 . . en.
  17. Web site: Oliver Bullough . Penguin Random House.
  18. Web site: Oliver Bullough . . 20 March 2022.

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