David Ignatius

David Robert Ignatius ( born May 26, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American journalist and author. He is an editor and columnist for the Washington Post. He has written seven novels. His novel The Man of Lies was filmed by Ridley Scott.

Life

Paternal Ignatius has Armenian roots with ancestors from Harput, Elazig and Turkey. David's father, Paul Robert Ignatius, was among other Navy Secretary.

Ignatius grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School. After graduating in 1968, he attended Harvard College. He graduated in 1973 with magna cum laude. With a scholarship, he studied at King 's College, Cambridge University Economics and graduated with a diploma.

He is married to Eve Ignatius and has three daughters.

Journalistic career

His journalistic career began after completing his training at the Washington Monthly. In 1976, he joined the Wall Street Journal, where he worked for 10 years as a reporter. From 1980 to 1983 he was the correspondent for the Middle East. In 1984 he came back to Washington and got 1985 Edward Weintal price.

A year later he moved to the Washington Post. He worked in various departments of Post, among other things, he was an editor for foreign news. In 1999 he began to write a biweekly column. This treated the Global politics, the economy and international affairs.

In 2000 he was appointed chief editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He left in 2002 but returned to the post office and wrote his columns on. In the course of his writing activities, he often traveled to the Middle East, where for interviews with politicians and heads of state, such as the President of Syria Bashar al -Assad and Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah.

Ignatius article also appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Talk Magazine and The Washington Monthly.

Scandal at the World Economic Forum

2009 moderated David Ignatius a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where it came to a scandal: Ignatius told Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, only 12 minutes to speak, while Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, 25 minutes of speaking time got, in which he defended the Israeli operation in the Gaza war at the turn of 2008/2009 emotionally. Erdoğan fell Peres during the speech into words, and then got a minute to respond to it; as this was over, he was repeatedly interrupted by Ignatius, who put his hand on Erdoğan's shoulder and asked him not to stop the planned dinner. Then Erdoğan gathered up his papers and left the room with the words, he did not think that he would ever again take part in a World Economic Forum. In retrospect, he stressed that the scandal was not content directed against Peres, whom he called right after the interview in order to clarify the inconsistencies, but only against the partisan in his eyes speech timing. In Turkey, Erdoğan was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd.

Novels

In addition to his work as a journalist, Ignatius is a successful author and so far has written eight novels. All deal with the issue of espionage. Both from the critics and readers of his novels are praised as exciting and realistic. Even the CIA praised the realism of his works.

• Reporters without behalf. Novel ("A firing offense "). Blessing Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89667-028- X.
• Bank of anxiety. Thriller ( " Bank of Fear" ). Publisher of Schröder, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-547-74961-1. (also published under the title: Blood Money Rowohlt, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-24909-9 ).
• The King of Washington. Novel ("The sun king" ). Blessing Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89667-031- X. The man who never lived. Audiobook. Abridged reading. Audio book, Freiburg / B. 2008, ISBN 978-3-89964-302-2 (6 CDs, read by John Steck).

Films

• Ridley Scott (Director): The man who never lived. 2007 ( with Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe and others).