Book description
Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker,
John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' versions of events to
report the real stories of our time.
The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling
Distant Voices is Pilger's reporting from East Timor, which
he entered secretly in 1993 and where a third of the population has
died as a result of Indonesia's genocidal policies. This edition also
contains more new material as well as all the original essays - from
the myth-making of the Gulf War to the surreal pleasures of
Disneyland. Breaking through the consensual silence, Pilger pays
tribute to those dissenting voices we are seldom permitted to hear.
John Pilger grew up in Sydney, Australia. He has been a war
correspondent, author and film-maker. He has twice won British
journalism's highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, for his
work all over the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has been
International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations
Associated Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he has
won France's Reporter Sans Frontières, an American television Academy
Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British
Academy of Film and Television Arts.
In 2003, he received the Sophie Prize for 'thirty years of exposing
deception and improving human rights'.
