John Pilger
John Pilger grew up in Sydney, Australia. He has been a war correspondent, author and film-maker. He has twice won British journalism's highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, for his work all over the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has been International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations Associated Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he has won France's Reporter Sans Frontières, an American television Academy Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2003, he received the Sophie Prize for 'thirty years of exposingdeception and improving human rights'.
News and Blog
The 2009 Sydney Peace Prize has been awarded to John Pilger for his work as an author, film-maker and journalist as well as for courage as a foreign and war correspondent in enabling the voices of the powerless to be heard.
Books by John Pilger
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Freedom Next Time
by John PilgerPublished: 01/08/2007
The latest hard-hitting investigative book from John Pilger, the bestselling author of HEROES, HIDDEN VOICES and A SECRET COUNTRY. Fully updated for the paperback edition.
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Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs
by Edited By John PilgerPublished: 03/04/2006
An incisive anthology of investigative journalism, edited and introduced by the bestselling reporter and film-maker John Pilger.
