Julian Borger

Borger in 2016

Julian Borger is an English journalist and non-fiction writer. He is the world affairs editor at The Guardian . ^[1] He was part of the Guardian team which won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2014. ^[2]

Career

Borger was a correspondent in the United States, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Balkans and covered the Bosnian War for the BBC. ^[3]

In his reporting, Borger covered the Bush administration military spending ^[4] and Iraq policy. ^[5] In the 2010s, he wrote about Iran. ^[6]

Borger is a contributor to the Center on International Cooperation. ^[7]

In 2016 Borger published a book titled, The Butcher's Trail about the world's most successful manhunt, the pursuit and capture of Balkan war criminals. ^{[8] [9]} His 2024 book, I Seek A Kind Person, traces the fate of some 80 Viennese Jewish children, including his own father, who were advertised in the Manchester Guardian by their parents, looking for British foster parents to save them from the Nazis. ^[10]

Works

• Borger, Julian (2016). The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt. New York: Other Press. ISBN   978-1-59051-605-8. OCLC   921420941.
• Borger, Julian (2024). I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust. London: John Murray. ISBN   978-1-39980-330-4. OCLC   1419567163.

References

1. "Julian Borger". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 September 2016.
2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/14/guardian-washington-post-pulitzer-nsa-revelations
3. ""The Butcher's Trail": hunting down the Balkan war criminals, Newshour". BBC World Service . Retrieved 31 July 2018.
4. "Burying Big Business - The Guardian, National Missile Defence and Climate Change". 22 May 2002. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
5. "Iraq and Arms Inspectors - The Big Lie, Part 1". 28 October 2002. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
6. "Silence Of The Lambs". MediaLens. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
7. "Julian Borger". cic.nyu.edu. Center on International Cooperation . Retrieved 10 May 2022.
8. "Julian Borger". Q+A. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
9. Butcher, Tim (17 March 2016). "The Butcher's Trail by Julian Borger review - the hunt for the Balkan War criminals". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 21 March 2025.
10. https://otherpress.com/product/i-seek-a-kind-person-9781635424287/