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John Carlin was born on 12 May, 1956 in London, United Kingdom, is a British journalist and author. Discover John Carlin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, writer
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 12 May, 1956
Birthday 12 May
Birthplace London, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1956

John Carlin (born 12 May 1956) is a British journalist and author, who deals with both sports and politics.

1981

Carlin began his journalism career at the Buenos Aires Herald in 1981, writing about film, football and politics.

1982

In 1982, he began a six-year stint in Mexico and Central America working for, among others, The Times and Sunday Times, the Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, and ABC (US) before joining the staff of The Independent at the newspaper's launch in 1986.

1989

Carlin was The Independent's South Africa bureau chief from 1989 to 1995.

1993

In 1993, Carlin wrote and presented a BBC documentary on the South African Third Force, his first television work.

1995

From 1995 to 1998 he was the United States bureau chief for The Independent on Sunday.

1997

In 1997, Carlin wrote an article titled "A Farewell to Arms" for Wired magazine about cyberwarfare.

1998

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 La Vanguardia.

He also writes regularly for Argentine newspaper Clarín.

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."

1999

This was originally intended to form the basis of a 1999 film, WW3.com.

Carlin was writer and interviewer for the 1999 episode "The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela" of the American PBS series Frontline.

It was also broadcast as "The First Accused" in South Africa by the SABC.

2000

Carlin won the 2000 Spanish Ortega y Gasset Award for journalism, for an article in Spanish newspaper El País.

2004

In 2004 he won the British Press Awards "Food and Drink Writer of the Year" prize.

He has won numerous other awards for his writing in Spain and Italy.

Much of Carlin's career has dealt with the politics of South Africa.

Mandela wrote the foreword to Carlin's 2004 Spanish language book, Heroica Tierra Cruel, about Africa.

2007

When this project stalled, its script was rewritten into the 2007 film, Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0).

2008

In August 2008, Carlin published the book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation, about how Mandela used the 1995 Rugby World Cup to reconcile a nation driven by centuries of racial animosity.

2009

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.

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 Buenos Aires, Argentina, due to his father's posting to the British Embassy.

After returning to England, he was educated at St. George's College, Weybridge, and went on to earn an MA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University.

He has one child.

The book became the basis for Clint Eastwood's 2009 film, Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman as Mandela.

Carlin has written for, among others, The Times, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Observer, the Guardian, the New Statesman, Wired and New Republic.

2011

In August 2011, Carlin collaborated with tennis superstar Rafael Nadal on the latter's autobiography Rafa (Hyperion, 2012, ISBN 1401310923).