'Ed Vulliamy' is an
English journalist and
writer. He was born on August 1, 1954. His mother is the children's book illustrator
Shirley Hughes. He was educated at
University College School and
Hertford College,
Oxford before becoming a journalist. He was Washington correspondent for ''
The Observer'' for six years (1997 - 2003) and Rome correspondent for ''
The Guardian''. He has reported extensively on the mid-1990s war in
Bosnia, denouncing the inhumane conditions in which prisoners were kept in the
concentration camps. He also extensively covered September 11, while living in New York in 2001. At the outbreak of the current war in Iraq, in March 2003, he was one of the first reporters on the ground.
Among his works are ''Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia's War'' and ''Sleaze''.
He was awarded the
Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award for 1992 and the
James Cameron Award in 1994 and named
Foreign Reporter of the Year in 1993 and 1997.
External links
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Selection of Ed Vulliamy's US reporting, 1997-2003
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"Secret agents, freemasons, fascists... and a top-level campaign of political 'destabilisation'" article on
Gladio published in ''
The Guardian'', 5 December 1990