Oliver Bullough

Bullough was born in 1977 and grew up on a sheep farm in Mid Wales.

{{cite web |title=Oliver Bullough |url=https://www.hayfestival.com/artist.aspx?artistid=3035 |website=Hay Festival |access-date=20 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623131652/https://www.hayfestival.com/artist.aspx?artistid=3035 |archive-date=23 June 2017}}

{{cite news |last1=Morphy |first1=Jim |title=The Last Man in Russia by Oliver Bullough |url=https://www.walesartsreview.org/the-last-man-in-russia-and-the-struggle-to-save-a-dying-nation-by-oliver-bullough/ |access-date=20 March 2022 |work=Wales Arts Review |date=24 March 2014}}

He studied History at Oxford University.Daniloff, Nicholas. (2012). [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490193 Review of the book Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus]. Journal of Cold War Studies 14(3), 220-222.

After leaving university, Bullough first acted in a friend's Edinburgh Fringe play.{{cite news |title=Interview: Oliver Bullough, author |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/interview-oliver-bullough-author-2460327 |access-date=20 March 2022 |work=The Scotsman |date=19 February 2010 |language=en}} In 1999, he bought the Lonely Planet Guide to Russia, took a Russian language course, and got hired by a Saint Petersburg English language magazine. After a year, Bullough was employed by The Times of Central Asia, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Bullough later worked as a journalist for Reuters. He also covered the war in Chechnya.

He is best known for his books Let Our Fame Be Great,{{cite book |last1=Bullough |first1=Oliver |title=Let our fame be great : journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus |date=2010 |publisher=Allen Lane |location=London |isbn=9781846141416}}{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Adam |title=Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |date=June 2011 |volume=13 |issue=1-2 |pages=199–202 |doi=10.1080/14623528.2011.554083}}

{{cite news |last1=Mitchell |first1=Allston |title=The Defiant People of the Caucasus |url=https://www.theglobaldispatches.com/articles/the-defiant-people-of-the-caucasus |access-date=20 March 2022 |work=The Global Dispatches |date=May 29, 2010 |quote=Oliver Bullough talks to The Global Dispatches about his new book, 'Let our Fame be Great - Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus'}}

nominated for the Orwell Prize,

{{cite web |title=Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus |url=https://www.orwellfoundation.com/book-title/let-our-fame-be-great-journeys-among-the-defiant-people-of-the-caucasus/ |website=The Orwell Foundation |access-date=20 March 2022}} (set in the Caucasus Mountains) and The Last Man in Russia, nominated for the Dolman Prize and won the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award. Later books focused on financial crime, Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back,{{cite book |last1=Bullough |first1=Oliver |title=Moneyland : why thieves and crooks now rule the world and how to take it back |date=2018 |publisher=Allen |location=London |isbn=9781781257937}} Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything.{{cite book |last1=Bullough |first1=Oliver |title=Butler to the world : how Britain helps the world's worst people launder money, commit crimes, and get away with anything |date=June 14, 2022 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=9781250281920 |edition=First U.S.}}{{cite news |last1=Nixon |first1=Simon |title=Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough review — how Britain became a dirty paradise for kleptocrats |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/butler-to-the-world-by-oliver-bullough-review-how-britain-became-a-dirty-paradise-for-kleptocrats-3ttqjd3wg |access-date=20 March 2022 |work=The Times |language=en}}

His work has appeared at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting,{{cite web |title=Oliver Bullough |url=https://iwpr.net/about/people/oliver-bullough |website=Institute for War and Peace Reporting |access-date=20 March 2022 |language=en}} and in GQ,{{cite news |title=Oliver Bullough |url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/profile/oliver-bullough |access-date=20 March 2022 |work=British GQ |publisher=Condé Nast}} Granta,{{Cite web|url=https://granta.com/contributor/oliver-bullough/|title = Oliver Bullough |website=Granta }} and The Guardian.{{cite news |title=Oliver Bullough |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliverbullough |access-date=20 March 2022 |work=The Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/33276/oliver-bullough.html?tab=penguin-biography|title = Oliver Bullough |website=Penguin Random House}}{{cite web |title=Oliver Bullough |url=https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/oliver-bullough |website=Curtis Brown |access-date=20 March 2022}}

• Butler to the World (2022). Profile Books. {{ISBN| 978-1788165877}}
• Moneyland (2018). Profile Books.

He returned to Britain in 2006.

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• {{cite web |title=Bullough, Oliver 1977- |url=https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2010034271/ |website=WorldCat Identities}}
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Category:1977 births

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