Misha Glenny

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Misha Glenny (born 1958) is a British journalist and specialist on Southeastern Europe. He was educated at an independent school, Magdalen College School, in Oxford, and studied at Bristol University and Prague's Charles University before becoming Central Europe correspondent for the The Guardian and later the BBC.

He specialised in reporting on the Balkans independence wars in the late 1980s and early 1990s that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia. While at the BBC, Glenny won 1993's Sony Gold Award for his 'outstanding contribution to broadcasting'. He has also written three books about Central and Eastern Europe. His latest book is about international organised crime, which, he writes, may now account for 20 per cent of the world's GDP.^[1]

The son of the academic Michael Glenny, he had advised the US and some European governments on policy issues and for three years ran an NGO helping with the reconstruction of Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. He is married to the journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Lang and has three children, Miljan and Sasha Glenny (from his first marriage), and Callum Lang.

[edit] Publications

• The Rebirth Of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy (Penguin Books, 1990)
• The Fall of Yugoslavia (Penguin Books, 1992)
• The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (Penguin Books, 1999)
• McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (The Bodley Head in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the US, 2008)

[edit] External links

• Author page at Granta Publications
• Articles in New York Review of Books
• Articles at openDemocracy
• Articles in London Review of Books
• McMafia reviewed - Salon.com

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