Peter Millar
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Peter Millar is a British journalist, critic and author, primarily known for his reporting of the later days of the Cold War and fall of the Berlin Wall for The Sunday Times of London. He was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year 1989*1 by the British What the Papers Say television programme.
Millar was born in Northern Ireland and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He subsequently worked for Reuters in East Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow, the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The European.
He has published one book of non-fiction, Tomorrow Belongs to Me (Bloomsbury, 1991), an oral history of East Germany, and two of fiction, Stealing Thunder (Bloomsbury) and Bleak Midwinter (Bloomsbury, 2002), a thriller on an outbreak of bubonic plague set in modern Oxford. Two other novels, Eiserne Mauer, and Schwarze Madonna, have been published in Germany by Lübbe Verlag*2.
Millar has also been the thriller critic of The Times newspaper since the mid 1990s.
He is the translator of several German language titles into English, including the best-selling White Masai (Arcadia, 2004)*3 by Swiss author Corinne Hofmann and Deal With the Devil by Martin Suter (Arcadia 2007)].
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