biography
| name: |
Pilger, John (Richard)
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pronunciation:
[piljer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1939– )
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| biography:
| Journalist and documentary film-maker, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. A provocative and controversial journalist who has worked mainly in Britain, he has twice won the British Journalist of the Year award and is a winner of the UNESCO Peace Prize. His film Year Zero (1979) exposed the atrocities of Pol Pot to the world. Later films include Vietnam: The Last Battle (1995) and Inside Burma: Land of Fear (1996). His published works include the collected writings Heroes (1986) and Hidden Agendas (1998), and the book The Secret Country (1989), a critical appraisal of the position of Aboriginal people in Australia. |
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