Oliver Bullough

Oliver Bullough CF is a British writer.[1] [2]

Bullough speaks at the British Library in 2022

Early life

Bullough was born in 1977 and grew up on a sheep farm in Mid Wales.[1] [3] He studied History at Oxford University.[4]

Career

After History Finals at Oxford, Bullough acted in a friend's Edinburgh Fringe play.[5] In 1999, he bought the Lonely Planet Guide to Russia, took a Russian language course, and got hired by a Saint Petersburg English language magazine.[1] [5] After a year, Bullough was employed by The Times of Central Asia, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.[5]

Bullough later worked as a journalist for Reuters.[1] He also covered the war in Chechnya.

Works

He is best known for his books Let Our Fame Be Great,[6] [7] [8] nominated for the Orwell Prize,[9] (set in the Caucasus mountains) and The Last Man in Russia, nominated for the Dolman Prize and won the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award. Later books focused on financial crime, Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back,[10] Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything.[11] [12]

His work has appeared at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting,[13] and in GQ,[14] Granta,[15] and The Guardian.[16][17][18]

Bibliography
  • Butler to the World (2022). Profile Books. ISBN 978-1788165877
  • Moneyland (2018). Profile Books.

Personal life

He returned to Britain in 2006.[1]

References
  1. "Oliver Bullough". Hay Festival. Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  2. "Oliver Bullough". churchillfellowship.org. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  3. Morphy, Jim (24 March 2014). "The Last Man in Russia by Oliver Bullough". Wales Arts Review. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  4. Daniloff, Nicholas. (2012). Review of the book Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus. Journal of Cold War Studies 14(3), 220-222.
  5. "Interview: Oliver Bullough, author". The Scotsman. 19 February 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  6. Bullough, Oliver (2010). Let our fame be great : journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 9781846141416.
  7. Jones, Adam (June 2011). "Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus". Journal of Genocide Research. 13 (1–2): 199–202. doi:10.1080/14623528.2011.554083.
  8. Mitchell, Allston (May 29, 2010). "The Defiant People of the Caucasus". The Global Dispatches. Retrieved 20 March 2022. Oliver Bullough talks to The Global Dispatches about his new book, 'Let our Fame be Great - Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus'
  9. "Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus". The Orwell Foundation. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  10. Bullough, Oliver (2018). Moneyland : why thieves and crooks now rule the world and how to take it back. London: Allen. ISBN 9781781257937.
  11. Bullough, Oliver (June 14, 2022). Butler to the world : how Britain helps the world's worst people launder money, commit crimes, and get away with anything (First U.S. ed.). New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781250281920.
  12. Nixon, Simon. "Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough review — how Britain became a dirty paradise for kleptocrats". thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  13. "Oliver Bullough". Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  14. "Oliver Bullough". British GQ. Condé Nast. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  15. "Oliver Bullough". Granta.
  16. "Oliver Bullough". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  17. "Oliver Bullough". Penguin Random House.
  18. "Oliver Bullough". Curtis Brown. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
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