Oliver Balch
Oliver Balch is an award-winning British journalist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He writes regularly for The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian. His articles have also appeared in The Financial Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Times Education Supplement, The Sunday Telegraph, FORTUNE magazine and a number of other international business titles.
Before moving to Argentina in 2004, he worked as a business journalist in London, specialising in particular on environmental and social development issues. He graduated from Durham University with a First in History and has a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
He has lived and travelled extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean. Away from the keyboard, he’s had jobs as a labourer in Peru, a Bollywood extra in India, a missionary in Bolivia and an English teacher to exiled Tibetan monks. He is married to Emma.
¡VIVA SOUTH AMERICA!: A JOURNEY AROUND A RESTLESS CONTINENT was published by Faber in March 2009 to rave reviews and has been nominated for the inaugral Travel Press Award.
Oliver is currently working on THE HOUR OF LAKSMI, an investigative study of contemporary India, for delivery to Faber in Spring 2011.
Literary – Georgina Capel
Foreign Rights – Abi Fellows
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