Ed Vulliamy

Ed Vulliamy (born 1 August 1954) - Edward Sebastian Vulliamy - is a British-Irish journalist and writer. His mother is the children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes and his grandfathers were the Liverpool store owner Thomas Hughes and author C.E. Vulliamy. He was educated at the independent University College School and at Hertford College, Oxford, before becoming a television - later print - journalist. He was US New York City correspondent for The Observer for six years (1997 to 2003) and Rome correspondent for The Guardian' during the early 1990s'.

He worked as a reporter for Granada TV's World In Action, winning a Royal Television Society award in 1985, for a film about Northern Ireland.

For the Guardian he reported extensively on the 1990s war in Bosnia, for which he won most major awards in British journalism . He also extensively covered the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath, while living in New York in 2001-3. He had covered the Iraq war of 1991, and then that of 2003, revealing atrocities by the coalition invasion forces, and some of the first insurgent action. He has since worked much in Mexico on narco-cartel wars, and in Colombia on FARC and the peace process.

He was awarded 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. In 2013, Vulliamy was awarded the coveted Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage - named in honour of the great writer, creator and master of the genre - for 'Amexica: War Along the Borderline'.

Vulliamy badly broke his leg in 2013, and wrote a detailed article from the patient's viewpoint about his prolonged treatment with the Ilizarov apparatus, an external frame that stretches the leg.^[1]

He left the Guardian and Observer newspapers in October 2016, after 31 years, to become a full-time author. He writes about music and painting, and currently specialises in writing about money-laundering the proceeds of drug trafficking.

Publications

• Ed Vulliamy, Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia's War, St Martins Press (New York, 1994). ISBN 978-0-312-11378-0
• David Leigh and Ed Vulliamy, Sleaze: The Corruption of Parliament, Fourth Estate (Londo, 1997). ISBN 978-1-85702-694-8
• Ed Vulliamy, Amexica: War Along the Borderline, Bodley Head (London, 2010). ISBN 978-1-84792-128-4; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York 2010) ISBN 978-0-374-10441-2
• Ed Vulliamy, The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: the Reckoning, Bodley Head (London, 19 April 2012). ISBN 978-1-84792-194-9
• Michael Jacobs and Ed Vulliamy: "Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting". Granta, London, 2014.

References

1. Ed Vulliamy (13 December 2015). "How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg". The Observer. Retrieved 13 December 2015.

External links

• Ed Vulliamy contributor profile at The Guardian and The Observer
  • Worldview highlights of Ed Vulliamy's US reporting, 1997-2003
  • Poison in the Well of History, 14 March 2000, Bosnia atrocities and ITN/LM libel case
  • A funk inferno, 16 February 2008, James Brown's Boston concert after the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King
• KWMU interviews Vulliamy on Prijedor atrocities, 20 November 2007
• Interview: Ed Vulliamy and the Bosnian Genocide, JP O'Malley, The Spectator, 13 April 2012
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Ed Vulliamy at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Ed Vulliamy in libraries (WorldCat catalog)