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Owen Matthews (born December 1971) is a British writer, historian and journalist. His first book, Stalin's Children, was shortlisted for the 2008 Guardian First Book Award,[1] the Orwell Prize for political writing,[2] and France's Prix Médicis Etranger.[3] His books have been translated into 28 languages. He is a former Moscow and Istanbul Bureau Chief for Newsweek.

Owen Matthews
BornDecember 1971 (age 5051)
OccupationJorunalist
NationalityBritish
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectHistory

Biography


Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971. He is half-Russian and he speaks the language as a native speaker. He was educated at Westminster School and studied Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford.[4]


Journalism


During the Bosnian War, Matthews worked as a foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade.[4][5] From 1995–7 he worked as a reporter on The Moscow Times. In 1997 he joined Newsweek Magazine's Moscow Bureau as a correspondent, covering the Second Chechen War. In 2001 he moved to Turkey, reporting from Turkey, the Caucasus, Syria and Iran, and also covering the invasions of Afghanistan and then Iraq.[4][6] From 2006 to 2012 he was Newsweek's Moscow Bureau Chief; he is now a Contributing Editor at the magazine.[4] In 2014 he reported for Newsweek on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.[7]


Books



Art


In 2013 Matthews had his first solo art show, "Impact" at the Galerie Nivet Carzon in Paris.[23] The installation centred on an impacted 9mm pistol round which Matthews picked up from a pavement in Baghdad, Iraq, next to the body of a man whom it had killed.


Television


Matthews co-wrote the 2015 Russian television series Londongrad and played an episodic role in it.[24] Matthews also played the US Ambassador to Moscow in the 2017 Russian television series The Optimists.[25]

In 2016-18 Matthews appeared regularly as a guest on Russian political talk shows 60 Minut (Russia's top-rated talk show on Russia-1); NTV's Mesto Vstrechi and Russia-1's Evening with Vladimir Solovyov.[26] He was known for outspoken criticism of the Kremlin and his clashes with senior Russian politicians, including Vladimir Zhirinovsky.[27][28]


References


  1. "Guardian First Book award". The Guardian. 22 November 2008.
  2. "Owen Matthews | the Orwell Foundation". 17 October 2010.
  3. "Prix Médicis 2009". alalettre.com.
  4. "Owen Matthews". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  5. "Dining With the Author: Dangerous Misadventures With Owen Matthews". HuffPost. 28 April 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  6. "Owen Matthews". Journalisted. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  7. "Thinking with the Blood".
  8. Simon Callow (25 July 2008). "Review: Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews". The Guardian.
  9. "Edward Lucas: Owen Matthews "Stalin's Children" review". blogspot.com.tr.
  10. "Owen Matthews 'Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America'". Pushkin House.
  11. "Dining With the Author: Dangerous Misadventures With Owen Matthews". HuffPost. 28 April 2014.
  12. Grimes, William (14 November 2013). "How the Russians Discovered America". The New York Times.
  13. "Glorious Misadventures, by Owen Mathews – review". The Spectator.
  14. "Imagine that Russia had colonised America". News – Telegraph Blogs. Archived from the original on 28 August 2013.
  15. "Les Escales, tous les livres de la maison d'édition" (PDF).
  16. "Ullstein Buchverlage". Ullstein Buchverlage: Winterkinder. 2 June 2015.
  17. "Région Lorraine – Cinq prix, 500 auteurs attendus". estrepublicain.fr.
  18. "L'Ombre du sabre - Owen Matthews".
  19. Bullough, Oliver (18 March 2019). "An Impeccable Spy review – wine, women and state secrets". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  20. "Our books of the year". The Economist. 7 December 2019.
  21. https://booksinthemedia.thebookseller.com/reviews/black-sun
  22. Lebor, Adam (3 December 2019). "Best books of 2019: Thrillers". Financial Times.
  23. "┤IMPACT├ « Galerie Nivet-Carzon".
  24. Andrei Muchnik (10 September 2015). "Russian TV Comes to Londongrad". The Moscow Times.
  25. "The Optimists (TV Series 2017) - IMDb". IMDb.
  26. https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5b2a9657c4e44000aafcb7c8/kto-takoi-ouen-metius-kotoryi-stal-populiarnym-posle-uchastiia-v-60-minut-5d873b5da06eaf00ad1d701a
  27. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: EPIC: Enraged Zhirinovsky Roasts English Journo Owen Matthews. YouTube.
  28. "Голова-ящик: как устроены российские политические ток-шоу".





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