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| '''André Vltchek''' |
'''André Vltchek''' is a radical public intellectual, philosopher, revolutionary novelist, investigative journalist, filmmaker and playwright. For the past two decades he has been uncovering the plight of the oppressed and colonized peoples all over the world. He has thus covered dozens of war zones and conflicts provoked by the Empire, such as those in Bosnia, Ukraine, Peru, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, DR Congo. After living for many years in Latin America and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in Asia and Africa. | ||
| ==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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| Vltchek is the author of several novels, non-fiction books and plays. Most of them are written in English and have so far been translated into 15 languages, including French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia. | Vltchek is the author of several novels, non-fiction books and plays. Most of them are written in English and have so far been translated into 15 languages, including French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia. | ||
| * ''Fighting Against Western Imperialism'', a book of philosophical essays about recent onslaught of Western imperialism | |||
| * ''On Western Terrorism'', a discussion on western power and propaganda with Noam Chomsky | |||
| * ''Point of No Retur'', his major work of fiction written in English; | |||
| - ,<ref>http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Andre+Vltchek&x=0&y=0</ref>, a revolutionary novel, his major work of fiction written in English;<br /> | |||
| * ''Indonesia - Archipelago of Fear'', a book about post-1965 Indonesia, a collapsed state and Western neo-colonialist concept, | |||
| * ''Oceania'', an in-depth analysis of the entire Pacific region and its destruction by traditional and neo-colonial powers | |||
| * ''Exile (with Rossie Indira)'', a book of conversations with the foremost Southeast Asian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer | |||
| * ''Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad'', a book of political nonfiction | |||
| * ''Ghosts of Valparaiso'' and ''Conversations with James'', two plays translated into several languages including Spanish | |||
| * ''Nalezeny'', a novel published in Czech | |||
| ⚫ | Since the 1990s, Vltchek has extensively contributed to ]'s ] edited by Ben Box.<ref>http://www.footprintbooks.com/guidebooks/latinamerica.cfm?ccs=77&cs=486</ref> | ||
| Currently, he is finishing writing his monumental political novel in English, ''Winter Journey'' | |||
| ⚫ | Since the 1990s, Vltchek has extensively contributed to ]'s |
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| ===Film-making, investigative journalism, photography=== | ===Film-making, investigative journalism, photography=== | ||
| Vltchek is producing and directing documentary films for a Venezuela-based international television network, Telesur, including those on Turkish/Syrian border, Egypt; Surabaya, Indonesia; Okinawa, Japan; Nairobi, Kenya. He closely works with the Russian Today (RT) and Press TV. |
Vltchek is producing and directing documentary films for a Venezuela-based international television network, Telesur, including those on Turkish/Syrian border, Egypt; Surabaya, Indonesia; Okinawa, Japan; Nairobi, Kenya. He closely works with the Russian Today (RT) and Press TV. | ||
| ⚫ | Since the 1980s, Vltchek has worked as war correspondent and photographer, covering conflicts all over the world. |
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| He writes and photographs for several publications worldwide, including , , , , ,,''Newsweek'', ''Asia Times'', ''China Daily'', ''Irish Times'', and . | |||
| His photographs have been published by countless publications and institutions all over the world, including The Asahi Shimbun, Conde Nast, RT. His photographic works have been exhibited in several places including The British Museum. | |||
| ⚫ | In 2004 he produced and directed a feature length documentary film about the Indonesian massacres in 1965 – ''Terlena – Breaking of The Nation''. |
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| A frequent guest speaker at major universities around the world, Vltchek has delivered a number of lectures based on his international experiences, including University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, Columbia University, Cornell University, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, Tsinghua University (Beijing), Hong Kong University, national universities in the Philippines, Indonesia and Timor Leste, Universidad ARCIS (Santiago, Chile), Escuela del Cine de Uruguay. | |||
| Since 2004, Vltchek has served as a Senior Fellow at The Oakland Institute and serves as a Governor at The Atoll Institute. | |||
| As an established public intellectual, Vltchek appears in various television and radio shows including those on France 24, RT, China Radio International, The Voice of Russia, Press TV, CCTV, Radio Pacifika. He is regularly interviewed by publications such as People's Daily, China Daily, Teheran Times, Radio Cape (South Africa). | |||
| ==Comments on Vltchek's work== | |||
| On Vltchek's latest book ''Oceania'', ] comments: <blockquote>Andre Vltchek has compiled a stunning record in evoking the reality of the contemporary world, not as perceived through the distorting prisms of power and privilege, but as lived by the myriad victims. He has also not failed to trace the painful – and particularly for the West, shameful – realities to their historical roots. The remarkable scope of his inquiries is illustrated even by the titles of some of his major books: “Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad,” a vast range of topics that he explores with rare insight and understanding; and “Exile,” his interviews with Indonesia’s great novelist Pramoedya, who spent a large part of his life in internal exile, imprisoned by the murderous and vicious Suharto government in Indonesia, which was greatly admired by the West, and enthusiastically supported in its shocking crimes, after it won approval by carrying out a mass slaughter that the CIA compared to the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and opened up the rich resources of the country to Western exploitation. | |||
| ⚫ | Since the 1980s, Vltchek has worked as war correspondent and photographer, covering conflicts all over the world. | ||
| In the present work, Vltchek extends his penetrating gaze to a lovely, desecrated, almost forgotten vast area of the world, Oceania, which he shows to be “a microcosm of almost all major problems faced by our planet.” Again, he tears away the scabs and reveals the festering sores below with the insight, acuity, and sympathetic understanding he has shown in his earlier work. At the same time, once again, he brings to light the strength and courage of the people, and their achievements, and explores the hopes for decent recovery and survival if the powerful can allow themselves to comprehend what they have done, and to accept the responsibility of actually protecting their victims instead of mouthing comforting and self-serving slogans.</blockquote> | |||
| ⚫ | In 2004 he produced and directed a feature length documentary film about the Indonesian massacres in 1965 – ''Terlena – Breaking of The Nation''. Right after a devastating earthquake that shook Chile in February 2010, Vltchek travelled to Chile and throughout the country and produced a video titled ''Chile Between Two Earthquakes''. For UNESCO Vltchek wrote and directed a film ''Tumaini'' about social collapse and devastation caused by HIV pandemic in communities around Lake Victoria in Kenya. In 2012, he wrote and directed 27-minute and 70-minute feature films ''One Flew Over Dadaab'' to depict the 20-year long tragedy of Somali refugees in the largest refugee camps in the world: Dadaab, situated in Northern Kenya. He has recently finalized a feature-length documentary film ''The Rwanda Gambit'' challenging the western narrative on genocide in Rwanda and its plunder in neighboring DR Congo. | ||
| By ]: | |||
| </blockquote>Chomsky knows everything and Vltchek has been everywhere and done everything. Omniscience and omnipresence are not often encountered, being primary attributes commonly attributed by theologians to a monotheistic god! Leaving aside this hyperbole, one is stunned throughout by the quality of the deep knowledge and compassion exhibited by these two public intellectuals, and even more by their deeply felt sympathy for all those being victimized as a result of the way in which the world is organized and Western hard power has been and is being deployed.</blockquote> | |||
| According to ]: | |||
| <blockquote>Andre Vltchek brings a highly informed and incisive intelligence to the politico-economic realities of whole countries and regions. His work on Micronesia alone has opened our eyes to the iniquities of the free market in that part of the world. He writes with objectivity and investigative honesty but also with a heartfelt concern for social justice. His efforts deserve our keen attention.</blockquote> | |||
| ==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
| * ''On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare'' (2013). Pluto Press, 200 p. ISBN |
* ''On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare'' (2013). Pluto Press, 200 p. ISBN 978-0745333878 | ||
| * ''Fighting Against Western Imperialism'' (2014). Badak Merah Semesta, 164 p. ISBN |
* ''Fighting Against Western Imperialism'' (2014). Badak Merah Semesta, 164 p. ISBN 978-6027005822 | ||
| * ''Point of No Return'' (2nd Edition, 2013). Mainstay Press, 364 p. ISBN |
* ''Point of No Return'' (2nd Edition, 2013). Mainstay Press, 364 p. ISBN 978-0977459070 | ||
| * ''Indonesia Archipelago of Fear'' (2012). Pluto Press. 288 p. ISBN 9780745331997 | * ''Indonesia Archipelago of Fear'' (2012). Pluto Press. 288 p. ISBN 9780745331997 | ||
| * ''Oceania: Neocoloniams, Nukes and Bones'' (2013). Atuanui Press, 258 p. ISBN |
* ''Oceania: Neocoloniams, Nukes and Bones'' (2013). Atuanui Press, 258 p. ISBN 978-0992245337 | ||
| * ''Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta'' (2006). (with Rosie Indira and Nagesh Rao). Haymarket Books. 166 p. ISBN 1-931859-28-0 | * ''Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta'' (2006). (with Rosie Indira and Nagesh Rao). Haymarket Books. 166 p. ISBN 1-931859-28-0 | ||
| * ''On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima To Drone Warfare'' (2013). (with Noam Chomsky). Pluto Press. 208 p. ISBN 9780745333878 | * ''On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima To Drone Warfare'' (2013). (with Noam Chomsky). Pluto Press. 208 p. ISBN 9780745333878 | ||
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| André Vltchek File:Vltchek.jpg | |
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| Born | 1963 Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union |
| Nationality | U.S.A |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, Philosopher, Filmmaker, Investigative Journalist, and Playwright |
| Website | http://andrevltchek.weebly.com |
André Vltchek is a radical public intellectual, philosopher, revolutionary novelist, investigative journalist, filmmaker and playwright. For the past two decades he has been uncovering the plight of the oppressed and colonized peoples all over the world. He has thus covered dozens of war zones and conflicts provoked by the Empire, such as those in Bosnia, Ukraine, Peru, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, DR Congo. After living for many years in Latin America and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in Asia and Africa.
Biography
André Vltchek was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), the Soviet Union, in 1963. He has spent most of his adult life in New York City ans has worked and live in all the continents of the world.
Fiction and Non-fiction Writing
Vltchek is the author of several novels, non-fiction books and plays. Most of them are written in English and have so far been translated into 15 languages, including French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia.
- Fighting Against Western Imperialism, a book of philosophical essays about recent onslaught of Western imperialism
- On Western Terrorism, a discussion on western power and propaganda with Noam Chomsky
- Point of No Retur, his major work of fiction written in English;
- Indonesia - Archipelago of Fear, a book about post-1965 Indonesia, a collapsed state and Western neo-colonialist concept,
- Oceania, an in-depth analysis of the entire Pacific region and its destruction by traditional and neo-colonial powers
- Exile (with Rossie Indira), a book of conversations with the foremost Southeast Asian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad, a book of political nonfiction
- Ghosts of Valparaiso and Conversations with James, two plays translated into several languages including Spanish
- Nalezeny, a novel published in Czech
Since the 1990s, Vltchek has extensively contributed to Footprint's South American Handbook edited by Ben Box.
Film-making, investigative journalism, photography
Vltchek is producing and directing documentary films for a Venezuela-based international television network, Telesur, including those on Turkish/Syrian border, Egypt; Surabaya, Indonesia; Okinawa, Japan; Nairobi, Kenya. He closely works with the Russian Today (RT) and Press TV.
Since the 1980s, Vltchek has worked as war correspondent and photographer, covering conflicts all over the world.
In 2004 he produced and directed a feature length documentary film about the Indonesian massacres in 1965 – Terlena – Breaking of The Nation. Right after a devastating earthquake that shook Chile in February 2010, Vltchek travelled to Chile and throughout the country and produced a video titled Chile Between Two Earthquakes. For UNESCO Vltchek wrote and directed a film Tumaini about social collapse and devastation caused by HIV pandemic in communities around Lake Victoria in Kenya. In 2012, he wrote and directed 27-minute and 70-minute feature films One Flew Over Dadaab to depict the 20-year long tragedy of Somali refugees in the largest refugee camps in the world: Dadaab, situated in Northern Kenya. He has recently finalized a feature-length documentary film The Rwanda Gambit challenging the western narrative on genocide in Rwanda and its plunder in neighboring DR Congo.
Publications
- On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare (2013). Pluto Press, 200 p. ISBN 978-0745333878
- Fighting Against Western Imperialism (2014). Badak Merah Semesta, 164 p. ISBN 978-6027005822
- Point of No Return (2nd Edition, 2013). Mainstay Press, 364 p. ISBN 978-0977459070
- Indonesia Archipelago of Fear (2012). Pluto Press. 288 p. ISBN 9780745331997
- Oceania: Neocoloniams, Nukes and Bones (2013). Atuanui Press, 258 p. ISBN 978-0992245337
- Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta (2006). (with Rosie Indira and Nagesh Rao). Haymarket Books. 166 p. ISBN 1-931859-28-0
- On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima To Drone Warfare (2013). (with Noam Chomsky). Pluto Press. 208 p. ISBN 9780745333878
- Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad (2006). Mainstay Press. 304 p. ISBN 0-9774590-3-9
- Liberation Lit (2010). (with Toni Christini). Mainstay Press. 822 p. ISBN 0-9774590-6-3