John Carlin

Mandela and the General

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Bestselling author: John Carlin in an award-winning British journalist and author whose books have been translated into 18 languages. His New York Times best-seller Playing the Enemy, was the basis for the Clint Eastwood movie Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.Release in Mandela's centennial year: Mandela, a moral and political giant of the 20th century, was born in 1918. This book's release on the centenary year will broaden its appeal outside the graphic novel trade.Hot genre for a hot topic: The divisions and conflicts rife in South Africa in the time of Mandela are alive and well today. Compellingly rendered in graphic nove… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-87486-820-3
EAN: 9780874868203
Produktnummer: 27175458
Verlag: Plough Pub House
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 112 S.
Masse: H25.4 cm x B19.5 cm x D1.0 cm 316 g
Gewicht: 316

Über den Autor

British journalist John Carlin is the author of Knowing Mandela and Playing the Enemy, which became the Clint Eastwood film Invictus with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. He is also the author of Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius; Rafa: My Story, with Raphael Nadal; and White Angels: Beckham, Real Madrid, and the New Football.John Carlin was South Africa bureau chief for the Independent from 1989 to 1995. In a 1998 interview, Nelson Mandela said of Carlin's journalism: What you wrote and the way in which you carried out your task in this country was absolutely magnificent...it was absolutely inspiring. You have been very courageous, saying things which many journalists would never say.Carlin has also written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Times of London, Financial Times, Toronto Star, El Pais, Daily Telegraph, Observer; New Statesman, Wired, Spin, Conde Nast Traveler, Punch, New Statesman, New Republic, Time, and has reported for BBC, ABC, PBS, and CBS.