Ed Vulliamy

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

His mother is the children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes 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, before becoming a television - later print - journalist. He was New York City correspondent for The Observer for six years (1997 to 2003) and Rome correspondent for The Guardian' during the early 1990s'.

He worked as a reporter for Granada TV's World In Action, winning a Royal Television Society award in 1985, for a film about Northern Ireland.

For the Guardian he reported extensively on the 1990s war in Bosnia, for which he won most major awards in British journalism . He also extensively covered the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath, while living in New York in 2001-3. He had covered the Iraq war of 1991, and then that of 2003, revealing atrocities by the coalition invasion forces, and some of the first insurgent action. He has since worked much in Mexico on narco-cartel wars, and in Colombia on FARC and the peace process.

He was awarded Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award for 1992 and the James Cameron Award in 1994 and named Foreign Reporter of the Year in 1993 and 1997. In 2013, Vulliamy was awarded the coveted Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage - named in honour of the great writer, creator and master of the genre - for 'Amexica: War Along the Borderline'.

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