Ed Vulliamy

Ed Vulliamy (born 1 August 1954) is a British journalist and writer. His mother is the children's book illustrator Shirley Hughes. He was educated at the independent University College School and at Hertford College, Oxford before becoming a journalist. He was New York 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, having visited Omarska camp and Trnopolje camp. 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

* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/page/0,11916,740882,00.html Selection of Ed Vulliamy's US reporting, 1997-2003]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/itn/article/0,2763,184815,00.html Vulliamy for "The Guardian" on Bosnia atrocities and ITN/LM libel case, "Poison in the Well of History"]
* [http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1186123 KWMU interviews Vulliamy on Prijedor atrocities, Nov. 20, 2007]
* [http://music.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,332501244-122429,00.html Comprehensive account of James Brown's Boston concert after the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King]