About Martin Woollacott
Lived 1939 – 2021 (aged 81–82). Martin Woollacott was a British journalist and foreign correspondent.
Martin Woollacott (29 April 1939 – 24 March 2021) was a British journalist. He was the foreign correspondent and foreign editor for The Guardian newspaper.
In 1975, he was nominated Foreign Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the Vietnam war. In 1991, he received a James Cameron Award for his coverage of Kurdistan.
Books After Suez: Adrift in the American Century (I.B. Tauris, 2006).
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Who was Martin Woollacott?
British journalist
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Martin Woollacott was born in 1939.
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Martin Woollacott died in 2021.
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Martin Woollacott was a journalist and foreign correspondent.
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Martin Woollacott was British.
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