Owen Matthews Explained

Owen Matthews
Birth Date:December
Occupation:Journalist
Nationality:British
Genre:Non-fiction
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Owen Matthews (born December 1971) is a British writer, historian and journalist. His first book, Stalin's Children, was shortlisted for the 2008 Guardian First Book Award,[1] the Orwell Prize for political writing,[2] and France's Prix Médicis Etranger.[3] His books have been translated into 28 languages. He is a former Moscow and Istanbul Bureau Chief for Newsweek.

Biography

Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971. His mother Lyudmila was born in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine,[4] and he speaks Russian as a native speaker. Matthews's maternal grandfather, Boris Bibikov, was a Communist Party supporter.[5]

Matthews studied Modern History at Oxford University.[6]

Collected media

Journalism

During the Bosnian War, Matthews worked as a freelance foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade.[6] [7] From 1995–7 he worked as a city and features reporter on The Moscow Times. In 1997 he joined Newsweek Magazine's Moscow Bureau as a correspondent, covering the Second Chechen War. In 2001 he moved to Turkey, reporting from Turkey, the Caucasus, Syria and Iran, and also covering the invasions of Afghanistan and then Iraq.[6] From 2006 to 2012 he was Newsweek's Moscow Bureau Chief; and until 2019 was a Contributing Editor at the magazine.[6] In 2014 he reported for Newsweek on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.[8] He is currently a contributing writer for The Spectator Magazine.[9]

Books

Non-fiction

Fiction

Television

Matthews co-wrote the 2015 Russian television series Londongrad and played an episodic role in it.[31] Matthews also played the US Ambassador to Moscow in the 2017 Russian television series The Optimists.[32]

In 2016-18 Matthews appeared regularly as a guest on Russian political talk shows 60 Minut (Russia's top-rated talk show on Russia-1); NTV's Mesto Vstrechi and Russia-1's Evening with Vladimir Solovyov.[33] He was known for outspoken criticism of the Kremlin and his clashes with senior Russian politicians, including Vladimir Zhirinovsky.[34] [35]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Guardian First Book award. The Guardian. 22 November 2008.
  2. Web site: Owen Matthews | the Orwell Foundation. 17 October 2010 .
  3. Web site: Prix Médicis 2009 . alalettre.com.
  4. News: Matthews . Owen . 2008-08-28 . Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-05-24 . 0261-3077.
  5. Virginia Rounding: Stalin's Children, by Owen Matthews, independent.co.uk, 20 June 2008
  6. Web site: Owen Matthews. Bloomsbury. 5 June 2015.
  7. Web site: Dining With the Author: Dangerous Misadventures With Owen Matthews. HuffPost. 28 April 2014. 5 June 2015.
  8. Web site: Thinking with the Blood.
  9. Web site: You searched for owen matthews .
  10. Web site: Review: Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews. Simon Callow. The Guardian. 25 July 2008.
  11. Web site: Edward Lucas: Owen Matthews "Stalin's Children" review. blogspot.com.tr.
  12. Web site: Guardian first book award 2008 Books The Guardian . 2023-05-24 . the Guardian . en.
  13. Web site: 2010-10-17 . Owen Matthews The Orwell Foundation . 2023-05-24 . www.orwellfoundation.com . en-GB.
  14. Web site: MATTHEWS Owen . 23 September 2023 .
  15. Web site: Owen Matthews 'Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America'. Pushkin House.
  16. Web site: Dining With the Author: Dangerous Misadventures With Owen Matthews. HuffPost. 28 April 2014.
  17. News: How the Russians Discovered America. The New York Times. 14 November 2013. Grimes. William.
  18. Web site: Glorious Misadventures, by Owen Mathews – review. The Spectator.
  19. Web site: Imagine that Russia had colonised America. https://web.archive.org/web/20130828171746/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100232933/imagine-that-russia-had-colonised-america/. dead. 2013-08-28. News – Telegraph Blogs.
  20. News: An Impeccable Spy review – wine, women and state secrets. Bullough. Oliver. 2019-03-18. The Observer. 2019-08-03. en-GB. 0029-7712.
  21. News: Our books of the year. The Economist. 7 December 2019.
  22. Web site: Booksellers Association - Parliamentary Book Awards 2022 shortlist announced .
  23. Web site: 2023 shortlist . 2023-05-24 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  24. Book: Overreach : The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine . 9780008562748 . 11 October 2022 . Matthews . Owen . Mudlark Press .
  25. Web site: Les Escales, tous les livres de la maison d'édition.
  26. Book: Ullstein Buchverlage. 2 June 2015. Ullstein Buchverlage: Winterkinder.
  27. Web site: Région Lorraine – Cinq prix, 500 auteurs attendus. estrepublicain.fr.
  28. Web site: L'Ombre du sabre - Owen Matthews.
  29. https://booksinthemedia.thebookseller.com/reviews/black-sun
  30. News: Best books of 2019: Thrillers. Financial Times. 3 December 2019. Lebor. Adam.
  31. Web site: Russian TV Comes to Londongrad. The Moscow Times. Andrei Muchnik. 10 September 2015.
  32. Web site: The Optimists (TV Series 2017) - IMDb. IMDb.
  33. Web site: Yandex .
  34. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: EPIC: Enraged Zhirinovsky Roasts English Journo Owen Matthews . YouTube.
  35. Web site: Голова-ящик: как устроены российские политические ток-шоу.

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