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John Carlin (born 12 May 1956)Official site of John Carlin
Curriculum Vitae is a British journalist and author, who deals with both sports and politics. His book ''Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation'', about former South African president Nelson Mandela, is the basis for the 2009 film ''Invictus''.


Personal life

Carlin was born to a Scottish father and Spanish mother. He spent the first three years of his life in North London, before moving to
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, Argentina, due to his father's posting to the British Embassy.Official site of John Carlin
My Story After returning to England, he was educated at
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, and went on to earn an MA in English Language and Literature from
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. He has one child.


Career

Carlin began his journalism career at the ''
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'' in 1981, writing about film, football and politics. In 1982, he began a six-year stint in
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and Central America working for, among others, ''
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'' and '' Sunday Times,'' the ''
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,''
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, CBC, and
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before joining the staff of ''
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'' at the newspaper's launch in 1986. Carlin was ''
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's'' South Africa bureau chief from 1989–1995. In 1993, Carlin wrote and presented a BBC documentary on the South African Third Force, his first television work.Official site of John Carlin
TV From 1995–1998 he was the United States bureau chief for ''
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''. In 1997, Carlin wrote an article titled "A Farewell to Arms" for ''
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''magazine about cyberwarfare. This was originally intended to form the basis of a 1999 film, ''WW3.com''.Fox eyes 'WW3.com' as tentpole for 1999
Variety.com, 27 January 1998 When this project stalled, its script was rewritten into the 2007 film, ''
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'' (Die Hard 4.0).The 'Die Hard' is cast for scribe Richardson
Variety.com, 26 July 2004 In 1998, Carlin joined '' El País'', the world's leading Spanish-language newspaper, where he worked as a senior international writer until being sacked in October 2017 after an article highly critical of the Spanish government and King regarding the Catalonian independence referendum. He has since written regularly for ''
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''. He also writes regularly for Argentine newspaper '' Clarín''. Carlin was writer and interviewer for the 1999 episode "The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela" of the American
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series ''
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''. It was also broadcast as "The First Accused" in South Africa by the
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.


Awards

Carlin won the 2000 Spanish Ortega y Gasset Award for journalism, for an article in Spanish newspaper '' El País''. In 2004 he won the
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"Food and Drink Writer of the Year" prize. He has won numerous other awards for his writing in Spain and Italy.


Nelson Mandela

Much of Carlin's career has dealt with the politics of South Africa. In a 1998 interview, Mandela said of Carlin's journalism: "What you wrote and the way in which you carried out your task in this country was absolutely magnificent…it was absolutely inspiring. You have been very courageous, saying things which many journalists would never say."Official site of John Carlin
, Review Extracts, Playing the Enemy Mandela wrote the foreword to Carlin's 2004 Spanish language book, ''Heroica Tierra Cruel'', about Africa. In August 2008, Carlin published the book ''Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation'', about how Mandela used the
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to reconcile a nation driven by centuries of racial animosity.When Nelson had a ball
The Guardian, 31 August 2008 The book became the basis for Clint Eastwood's 2009 film, ''Invictus'', starring Morgan Freeman as Mandela. Carlin has written for, among others, ''
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'', the ''
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'', the ''
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'', ''
Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', ''
The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the ...
'', ''
the Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'', the ''
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'', ''Wired'' and '' New Republic''.


Other works

In August 2011, Carlin collaborated with tennis superstar
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on the latter's autobiography ''Rafa'' ( Hyperion, 2012, ).


Filmography

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War on Peace ''War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence'' is a 2018 book by American journalist Ronan Farrow, published on April 24, 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. Reception ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote, "Farrow doesn't quite ...
'' (Documentary, BBC) (1993) (Writer/Interviewer) *'' The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela'' (Documentary) ''
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'' (1999) (Writer/Cast) *''
Live Free or Die Hard ''Live Free or Die Hard'' (released as ''Die Hard 4.0'' outside North America) is a 2007 American action-thriller film directed by Len Wiseman, and serves as the fourth installment in the ''Die Hard'' film series. It is based on the 1997 arti ...
'' (2007) (Script/Article) *''
Invictus "Invictus" is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). It was written in 1875 and published in 1888 in his first volume of poems, ''Book of Verses'', in the section ''Life and Death (Echoes)''. Backgr ...
'' (2009) (Book) *''
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(Documentary, ESPN) '' (2010) (Writer/Producer)


Bibliography

* ''Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius'',
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(UK), , 2014 * ''Rafa'', Hyperion (US), and
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(UK), , August 2011 * ''Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation'', , Penguin, August 2008 *
Heroica Tierra Cruel
' , September 2004 * ''White Angels: Beckham, Real Madrid and the New Football'', , Bloomsbury, September 2004


Comics

* ''Mandela and the General'', Plough Publishing House (US), , November 2018 (Writer, with art by Oriol Malet)


References


External links

*
John Carlin
at Journalisted.com *
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
PBS.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Carlin, John 1956 births British people of Spanish descent British expatriates in Argentina British journalists British writers Living people Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford