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Michael Ignatieff, Author The London based writer, historian, and broadcaster, Michael Ignatieff, was born and educated in Toronto. He gained a doctorate in history at Harvard and has held research fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge, and visiting posts at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, the University of California at Berkeley, Notre Dame, the University of London and the London School of Economics. During his academic year he published A Just Measure of Pain: Penitentiaries in the Industrial Revolution and The Needs of Strangers, an essay on the philosophy of human needs. He has been awarded five honorary degrees. Since 1984, his work as a freelance writer has won him numerous awards. The Russian Album, a family memoir, won both Canada’s Governor General Award and the W.H. Heinemann Prize of the Royal Society of the Literature. His second novel Scar Tissue was nominated for the Book Prize in 1993. His books have been translated into ten languages. His screenplays include "1919" starring Paul Scofield, and "Eugene Onegin", starring Ralph Fiennes. His major work on television has been as a writer of films on international issues. A six-part documentary series "Blood and Belonging" on nationalism won major awards in Canada and the United States. A book of the same title won the Lionel Gelber Award for the best writing on foreign affairs, as well as the Cornelius Ryan Award of the Overseas Press Club in New York. "Getting Away with Murder", a BBC2 documentary on the South African Truth Commission won awards from the Monte Carlo television festival and the Royal Television Society. His writing appears regularly in The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Time, The New York Times Book Review, Prospect, and Granta. Most recently, his books have included Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (1998) and Isaiah Berlin: A Life (1998). In May, he will publish Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond. |