Adrian Levy

Adrian Levy (born 1965) is a journalist and film maker who writes for The Guardian.[1]

Specialising in long-form investigative work, his pieces most often filed from Asia are published in The Guardian's Weekend magazine. Levy's work has also appeared in The Observer, The Sunday Times magazine, as well as being syndicated in the US, Australasia and across Europe.

Levy has also written non-fiction books. His fourth, entitled The Meadow, was published in paperback in 2013 by HarperCollins, in Britain.[2] A fifth, The Siege, based around the attacks on Mumbai in November 2008, was published by Penguin in November 2013.[3] Levy has also co-produced documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, as well as broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. Much of his work has been a collaboration with the journalist and author Cathy Scott-Clark.

In 2009, Levy and Scott-Clark were jointly made British Journalist of the Year at the One World Media awards, having been British Foreign Journalist of the Year in 2004. They were runners-up in the British Press Awards as Feature Writer of the Year in 2006 and 2009. In 2013, they produced Kashmir's Torture Trail, a film for C4 Dispatches, won the Amnesty Media awards "best documentary".[4] A second film for Dispatches, Chinese Murder Mystery, was long-listed for the BAFTAS.[5]

Adrian Levy appeared in 4 events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.[6][7]

  1. ^ Adrian Levy's Guardian profile. "Adrian Levy", The Guardian. Retrieved on 14 April 2010.
  2. ^ "The Meadow : Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark - HarperCollins". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  3. ^ "Penguin". Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013. catalogueId=253&imprintId=1121&titleId=18757
  4. ^ "News | Channel 4".
  5. ^ "Film | True Vision". Archived from the original on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
  6. ^ "Brisbane Writers Festival 2017". Uplit. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  7. ^ Frostick, James (31 August 2017). "Zoe Pollock, chief executive officer, UPLIT/Brisbane Writers Festival". Weekend Edition. Retrieved 4 September 2017.