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Name
  
Ian Johnson


Role
  
Writer

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Occupation
  
Pulitzer Prize winning Reporter and Journalist

Education
  
University of Florida, Harvard University, Free University of Berlin

Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Books
  
Wild Grass: Three Stories of, A Mosque in Munich: Nazis - the, The Middle English Life of Ch, William Alwyn, Minark: Archaeological Database

Ian Johnson (July 27, 1962 - ) is a writer and journalist, working primarily in China and Germany. His Chinese name is Zhang Yan (张彦).

A reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Johnson won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. His reporting from China was also honored in 2001 by the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Life and work

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Johnson is a naturalized United States citizen who lives in Berlin, Germany. He first visited China on a study program in 1984.

In 2010, Johnson published A Mosque in Berlin, a book about the Islamic Center of Munich. He conducted research on the book while on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. He attended the University of Florida.[1]

In 2004, Johnson published Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China (Pantheon), which was later released in paperback and has been translated into several languages.

In 2017, he published The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao.

On February 9, 2006, Johnson delivered congressional testimony on the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. He described the Brotherhood as "an umbrella group that regularly lobbies major international institutions like the EU and the Vatican" and "controls some of the most dynamic, politically active Muslim groups in key European countries, such as Britain, France and Germany." He said the group has schools "to train imams," has funded a "mechanism in the guise of a UK-registered charity," and has a fatwa council to enforce ideological conformity.

Johnson left the Wall Street Journal in 2010 to pursue magazine and book writing on cultural and social affairs.

References

Ian Denis Johnson Wikipedia