John Carlin

Journalist and writer. He studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, but his professional vocation has always been linked to journalism. Since he began working as a journalist for the Buenos Aires Herald in 1981, he has been a correspondent in countries such as Mexico, El Salvador, South Africa and the United States, for the BBC, The Times and The Independent. He won the Ortega y Gasset Prize for Journalism in 2000. He has published, among others, Heroic Cruel Land (Seix Barral, 2004), which brings together his articles and reports as a correspondent in South Africa since 1989, The White Angels (Seix Barral, 2004), The Human Factor (Seix Barral, 2016) and Mandela's Smile (Debate, 2019). He currently writes for La Vanguardia and Clarín.