Hamish McDonald
Hamish McDonald is a print journalist and author of several books.[1] He also holds a fellowship at the American think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies.[2]
Career
McDonald has been working as a journalist in mostly Asian countries like India, Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China, where he was a correspondent based in Beijing from 2002 to 2005. He was in India between 1990 and 1997, covering the time immediately after the economic reforms.[2] He was also the political editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald.[1]
In 2005, he won the Walkley Award for newspaper feature writing for his article What's Wrong With Falun Gong, which is about the brutal suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement in China.[3][4]
Books
- Suharto's Indonesia, 1980[1]
- The Polyester Prince, 1998: This unauthorized biography of Dhirubhai Ambani never went to print in India after the publishers were threatened with legal action by the Ambani family.[5]
- Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra, 2001: Co-authored with Desmond Ball[1]
- Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military & Violence in East Timor in 1999, 2002[1]
- Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World’s Richest Brothers and Their Feud, 2010:[6] The book was published in India as Ambani and Sons.[5][7][8]
- Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century, St. Martin's Press, 2015
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Hamish McDonald". The Age. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- 1 2 "Hamish McDonald". Center for Strategic and International Studies. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ↑ "Age staff win journalism's top awards". The Age. 2 December 2005. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ↑ "What's wrong with Falun Gong". The Age. 16 October 2004. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- 1 2 "The return of The Polyester Prince". Business Standard. 2 October 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ↑ "A Durable Yarn". The Economist. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ↑ Veena Venugopal (23 September 2010). "Hamish McDonald | The Reliance split is good for India". Live Mint. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ↑ "Cream Weaver". Outlook India. 4 October 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2014.