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  1. Biography

  2. Journalism

  3. Books

  4. Television

  5. References

  6. External links

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Owen Matthews (born 1971) is a British writer, historian and journalist. His first book, Stalin's Children, was shortlisted for the 2008 Guardian First Books Award,[1] the Orwell Prize for political writing,[2] and France's Prix Medicis Etranger[3] His books have been translated into 28 languages. He is a former Moscow and Istanbul Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine. Matthews has lectured on Russian history and politics at Columbia University's Harriman Centre,[4] St Antony's College Oxford,[5] and the Journalism Faculty of Moscow State University.

Biography

Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971. He was educated at Westminster School and studied Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford.[6]

Journalism

During the Bosnian War, Matthews worked as foreign correspondent in Budapest, Sarajevo and Belgrade.[6][7] 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.[6][8] From 2006 to 2012 he was Newsweek's Moscow Bureau Chief; he is now a Contributing Editor at the magazine.[6]

Books

  • Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War (Bloomsbury, 2008), a memoir of three generations of Matthews' family in Russia, was named as a Book of the Year by The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph.[9][10]
  • Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of Russian America (Bloomsbury 2013), a history of Imperial Russia's doomed attempt to colonise America, was shortlisted for the 2014 Pushkin House Prize[11] for books on Russia.[12][13][14][15]
  • Moscou Babylone (Les Escales, 2013), a novel based on Matthews' experiences in Moscow in the 1990s, has been published in French,[16] German[17] and Czech. It was chosen as the 'coup de coeur etranger' (favorite foreign book) at the 2013 Nancy Literary Festival, Le Livre sur la Place.[18]
  • Thinking with the Blood (Newsweek, 2014), a personal reportage based on a journey across war-torn Ukraine in the late summer of 2014, was published as an ebook.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}

Television

Matthews co-wrote the 2015 Russian television series Londongrad and played an episodic role in it.[19]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/22/owen-matthews-stalins-children|title=Guardian First Book award|work=The Guardian}}
2. ^http://theorwellprize.co.uk/shortlists/owen-matthews/
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.alalettre.com/actualite-prix-medicis-2009.php|title=Prix Médicis 2009 |work=alalettre.com}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/book-talk-glorious-misadventures-nikolai-rezanov-and-dream-russian-america|title=Book Talk: "Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America"|work=columbia.edu}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rees.ox.ac.uk/events?page=0%2C12|title=Events|publisher=University of Oxford}}
6. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url= http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/owen-matthews|title= Owen Matthews|publisher=Bloomsbury|accessdate=5 June 2015}}
7. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-walker/dining-with-the-owen-matthews_b_5215455.html|title=Dining With the Author: Dangerous Misadventures With Owen Matthews|work=HuffPost|date=28 April 2014|accessdate=5 June 2015}}
8. ^{{cite web|url= http://journalisted.com/owen-matthews| title=Owen Matthews| publisher=Journalisted|accessdate=5 June 2015}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/26/ussr.memoir|title=Review: Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews|author=Simon Callow|work=The Guardian}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://edwardlucas.blogspot.com.tr/2008/06/owen-matthews-stalins-children-review.html|title=Edward Lucas: Owen Matthews "Stalin's Children" review|work=blogspot.com.tr}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pushkinhouse.org/events-archive/2014/3/30/owen-matthews-glorious-misadventures-nikolai-rezanov-and-the-dream-of-a-russian-america|title=Owen Matthews 'Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America’|work=Pushkin House}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-walker/dining-with-the-owen-matthews_b_5215455.html|title=Dining With the Author: Dangerous Misadventures With Owen Matthews|work=HuffPost}}
13. ^https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/books/glorious-misadventures-a-history-by-owen-matthews.html?smid=go-share&_r=0
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/books-feature/8977021/glorious-misadventures-by-owen-mathews-review/|title=Glorious Misadventures, by Owen Mathews – review|work=The Spectator}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100232933/imagine-that-russia-had-colonised-america/|title=Imagine that Russia had colonised America|work=News – Telegraph Blogs}}
16. ^http://www.lesescales.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ESCALES-LBF-2013.pdf
17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de/nc/buch/details/winterkinder-9783843706889.html|title=Ullstein Buchverlage|date=2 June 2015|work=Ullstein Buchverlage: Winterkinder}}
18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.estrepublicain.fr/actualite/2013/07/31/cinq-prix-500-auteurs-attendus|title=Région Lorraine – Cinq prix, 500 auteurs attendus|work=estrepublicain.fr}}
19. ^{{Cite web|url=https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-tv-comes-to-londongrad-49489|work=The Moscow Times|title=Russian TV Comes to Londongrad|author=Andrei Muchnik}}

External links

  • Newsweek Magazine author page  
  • Spectator Magazine author page  
  • Pushkin House Prize author interview  
  • Guardian First Books Award author interview [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/22/owen-matthews-stalins-children]
  • Nancy Literary Festival author interview  
  • Huffington Post author interview  
  • Forbes Magazine article on Matthews' Russia coverage [https://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/01/02/why-we-probably-shouldnt-pay-attention-to-owen-matthews-prediction-of-russias-imminent-economic-collapse/]
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