Sebastian Rotella is an American foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and novelist.

Biography

Rotella was born in

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, and graduated from the

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. While at the University of Michigan, he won four

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s from 1982 to 1984. He worked for over twenty years as a reporter at the ''

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''. The

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awarded his investigation of the

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the "Best Online Investigation of an International Issue or Event 2010" award. Rotella contributed as a reporter to "What Happened at Dos Erres", a documentary published as an episode of

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that won a

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in 2012. As a

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employee, he was a co-producer and the primary contributing reporter of the 2016 ''

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'' episode "Terror in Europe". 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 ''

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''. Rotella speaks Spanish, French and Italian. He is the older brother of

Carlo Rotella Carlo Rotella is an American non-fiction writer and academic. Life Carlo Rotella is the son of Salvatore Rotella, a chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago originally from Sicily. His mother was from Spain and was a professor of comparative litera ...

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

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ProPublica: Sebastian RotellaGoodReads: Sebastian RotellaAmazon: Sebastian RotellaBookReporter.com: Sebastian RotellaPBS: ''Frontline'': "Terror in Europe"
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