Oliver Bullough

[1] [2] Bullough was born in 1977 and grew up on a sheep farm in Mid Wales.

[4] After leaving university, Bullough first acted in a friend's Edinburgh Fringe play.

[1] [5] After a year, Bullough was employed by The Times of Central Asia, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

He is best known for his books Let Our Fame Be Great,[6][7][8] nominated for the Orwell Prize,[9] (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.

[11][12] His work has appeared at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting,[13] and in GQ,[14] Granta,[15] and The Guardian.