Sebastian Rotella
{{short description|American novelist}}
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| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| occupation = Journalist, novelist
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = University of Michigan
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Sebastian Rotella is an American foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and novelist.
File:Sebastian Rotella, Habiba Nosheen, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Julie Snyder and Ira Glass, May 2013.jpg for "What Happened at Dos Erres?", May 2013
Sebastian Rotella, Habiba Nosheen, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Julie Snyder and Ira Glass]]
Biography
Rotella was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Michigan. While at the University of Michigan, he won four Hopwood Awards from 1982 to 1984.{{cite web |title = List of Hopwood Award Winners |url = http://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/hopwood/Home/Winners/Hopwinnyearall.pdf |accessdate = March 30, 2015 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152336/http://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/hopwood/Home/Winners/Hopwinnyearall.pdf |archivedate = April 2, 2015 }} He worked for over twenty years as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times.{{cite web |title = ProPublica biography |url = https://www.propublica.org/site/author/sebastian_rotella | accessdate=March 30, 2015 }}{{cite web |title = BookReporter.com biography |url = http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/sebastian-rotella | accessdate=March 30, 2015 }} The Overseas Press Club awarded his investigation of the 2008 Mumbai attacks the "Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event 2010" award.{{cite web |title = Overseas Press Club of America awards page |url = https://www.opcofamerica.org/awards/best-online-investigation-international-issue-or-event-2010 | accessdate=April 1, 2015 }} Rotella contributed as a reporter to "What Happened at Dos Erres", a documentary published as an episode of This American Life that won a Peabody Award in 2012.{{cite web |title = Peabody Awards award profile of This American Life: What Happened at Dos Erres |url = http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/this-american-life-what-happened-at-dos-erres | accessdate=April 1, 2015 }} As a ProPublica employee, he was a co-producer and the primary contributing reporter of the 2016 Frontline episode "Terror in Europe".{{IMDb title | tt6166720 | Terror in Europe | (Frontline episode) }}
Rotella's article "Children of the Border", published in the Los Angeles Times on April 3, 1993, served as a source for Bruce Springsteen's album The Ghost of Tom Joad.{{cite web |title = Liner Notes, The Ghost of Tom Joad |url = http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/The_Ghost_of_Tom_Joad.html | accessdate=April 1, 2015 }}
Rotella speaks Spanish, French and Italian.{{Cite web |title=Sebastian Rotella |url=https://serp.wiki/Sebastian_Rotella/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=serp.wiki}} He is the older brother of Carlo Rotella.
Bibliography
=Nonfiction works=
- Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the Mexican Border (1998)
- Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story, by Sebastian Rotella and Gary Dikeos (2013)
- Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory, and Justice in Guatemala, by Ana Arana, Sebastian Rotella and Kevin Stillwell (2013)
=Novels=
- Triple Crossing (2012)
- The Convert's Song (2014)
- Rip Crew (2018)
References
External links
{{commons category|Sebastian Rotella}}
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- [https://www.propublica.org/site/author/sebastian_rotella ProPublica: Sebastian Rotella]
- [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/402481.Sebastian_Rotella GoodReads: Sebastian Rotella]
- [https://www.amazon.com/Sebastian-Rotella/e/B007T0FH52 Amazon: Sebastian Rotella]
- [http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/sebastian-rotella BookReporter.com: Sebastian Rotella]
- [http://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-terror-europe/ PBS: Frontline: "Terror in Europe"]
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:University of Michigan alumni