Background
André Vltchek was born in Leningrad (now Saint St. Petersburg), the Soviet Union, in 1963.
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Andre Vltchek
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Career
He has covered dozens of war zones and conflicts from Bosnia and Peru to Sri Lanka, DR Congo and Timor-Leste. After living for many years in Latin America and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in Asia and Africa. He has spent most of his adult life in New York City and has worked and lived in all of the continents of the world.
Fiction and non-fiction
Vltchek is the author of several novels, non-fiction books and plays.
Most of them are written in English and have so far been translated into 15 languages, including French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia. Fighting Against Western Imperialism, a book of philosophical essays about the rise of Western imperialism
On Western Terrorism, a discussion on western power and propaganda with Noam Chomsky
Point of Number Return, his major work of fiction written in English;
Indonesia - Archipelago of Fear, a book about post-1965 Indonesia, a collapsed state and Western neo-colonialist concept,
Oceania, an in-depth analysis of the entire Pacific region and its "destruction" by traditional and neo-colonial powers
Exile (with Rossie Indira), a book of conversations with the foremost Southeast Asian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad, a book of political nonfiction
Ghosts of Valparaiso and Conversations with James, two plays translated into several languages including Spanish
Nalezený, a novel published in Czechoslovakian
Since the 1990s, Vltchek has extensively contributed to Footprint"s South American Handbook edited by Ben Box.
Film-making, investigative journalism, photography
Vltchek is producing and directing documentary films for a Venezuela-based international television network, Telesur, including those on Turkish/Syrian border, Egypt. Surabaya, Indonesia; Okinawa, Japan.
Nairobi, Kenya. He closely works with the Russian Today (Reality Therapy) and Press television Since the 1980s, Vltchek has worked as war correspondent and photographer, covering conflicts all over the world.
In 2004 he produced and directed a feature-length documentary film about the Indonesian massacres in 1965 – Terlena – Breaking of The Nation. Right after a devastating earthquake that shook Chile in February 2010, Vltchek travelled to Chile and throughout the country and produced a video titled Chile Between Two Earthquakes. Foreign United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Vltchek wrote and directed a film Tumaini about social collapse and devastation caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus pandemic in communities around Lake Victoria in Kenya.
In 2012, he wrote and directed 27-minute and 70-minute feature films One Flew Over Dadaab to depict the 20-year long tragedy of Somali refugees in the largest refugee camps in the world: Dadaab, situated in Northern Kenya.
He has recently finalized a feature-length documentary film The Rwanda Gambit challenging the western narrative on genocide in Rwanda and its plunder in neighboring DR Congo.
