Ed Vulliamy

Edward Sebastian Vulliamy (born 1 August 1954), is a British-Irish journalist and writer.

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• Itn penny marshall and the observer ed vulliamy in omarska and trnopolje
• Ed vulliamy not in my name march 16th 2009 ne u moje ime
• Family
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Vulliamy was born and raised in Notting Hill, London. His mother is the children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes, his father was the architect John Sebastian Vulliamy, 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, where he wrote a thesis on the Northern Ireland "Troubles"

In 1979, he joined Granada Television's flagship documentary programme World In Action, and won a Royal Television Society Award for a film about Ireland. In 1986, he joined The Guardian as a reporter. From there, he covered the Balkan wars, uncovering a gulag of concentration camps, in August 1992.

He was awarded most major prizes in British journalism for his coverage of the war in Bosnia. As a result of this work, Vulliamy became the first journalist since the Nuremberg trials to testify at an international war crimes tribunal. He went on to testify in ten trials for the prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, including those of Bosnian Serb leaders Dr. Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic.

In 1994, and again from 1997 to 2003, Vulliamy was based in Washington and later New York as US Correspondent for the Guardian's sister paper, The Observer. There, he covered the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. He had covered the Iraq war of 1991, and then proceeded to report that of 2003, revealing atrocities by the coalition invasion forces, and some of the first insurgent action.

Among his awards for newspaper reporting are: Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award for 1992 International Reporter of the Year 1992, the Amnesty International Media award 1992, and the James Cameron Award in 1994. He was named Foreign Reporter of the Year in 1993 and 1997

From 2003 onwards, he worked along the US-Mexican border, reporting on issues of migration and the emergent drug wars. This work led to his book 'Amexica: War Along the Borderline', which in 2013 won the coveted Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage – named in honour of the writer, creator and master of the genre. Vulliamy was shortlisted for the same award in 2017, for a book about the legacy of the Bosnian war, The War is Dead, Long Live The War: Bosnia, the Reckoning.

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.

He left the Guardian and Observer newspapers in October 2016, after 31 years, to become a full-time freelance author, journalist, librettist and film-researcher - but continues to the work for Guardian Films, on the peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC. Forthcoming books include a memoir of a life with music in conflict zones ('When Words Fail: Music in a Real World', Granta, Oct. 2018), and another which will be an examination of correspondence between Vulliamy's great aunt, Gladys Hynes (artist and illustrator for Ezra Pound) and the Irish republican leadership between 1918 and 1922.