is the author of Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa’s Disputed Nations (1993) and The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man’s Gate (2000), a report on clandestine migrants and asylum seekers in Western Europe, which won the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism in 2001. His translations of Rimbaud’s poetry were published by Penguin in 2004. He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. His most recent book is Mother Country (2006).

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