Victor Malarek
| Victor Malarek | |
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| Born |
Victor Gregory Malarek 26 June 1947 Lachine, Quebec |
| Nationality |
 Canada |
| Occupation | author, journalist |
| Television |
The Fifth Estate W5 |
| Awards | Gemini Award |
Victor Gregory Malarek (born 26 June 1948 in Lachine, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist and author. Currently, he is a senior reporter for CTV Television's W-FIVE.
Biography
From 1990 to 2000, Malarek was one of the hosts for CBC Television's the fifth estate. In 1997, he won a Gemini Award as Canada’s top broadcast journalist. Malarek also received four Michener Awards, three of these during his tenure with The Globe and Mail and the other at the fifth estate.
Malarek entered the world of journalism in 1968 as a copy boy for Weekend Magazine, and joined The Montreal Star as a police reporter in 1970. His first major assignment was reporting on the Quebec October Crisis. He became a The Globe and Mail writer in 1976.
In 1989, he was portrayed by Elias Koteas in the feature movie Malarek, based on his first book Hey, Malarek!. These works depict the journalist's turbulent youth and his life under Quebec's child protection system. The 16-part CBC Television fictional drama series Urban Angel in the 1991–1992 season was also inspired by Malarek's life.
Malarek is the author of six books, the most recent of which, The Johns – Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It, was released in the U.S. and Canada in April 2009. It is the sequel to The Natashas – Inside the Global Sex Trade which was released in 2003 and published in 12 countries.
In 2010, he spoke about human trafficking in Hope for the Sold's documentary Enslaved and Exploited: The Story of Sex Trafficking in Canada.[1]
Bibliography
- 1984: Hey, Malarek! : The True Story of a Street Kid Who Made It ISBN 0-7715-9795-9 (Macmillan Publishers)
- French version Hé, Malarek! ISBN 2-89249-136-3, (Éditions du Trécarré, translation by Michel Beaulieu)
- 1987: Haven's Gate: Canada's Immigration Fiasco, ISBN 0-7715-9497-6 (Macmillan)
- 1989: Merchants of Misery, ISBN 0-7715-9429-1 (Macmillan)
- 1996: Gut Instinct: The Making of an Investigative Reporter, ISBN 0-7715-7383-9 (Macmillan)
- 2003: The Natashas: Inside the Global Sex Trade, ISBN 0-670-04312-5 (Viking Books)
- 2009: The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It, ISBN 1559708905 (Key Porter)
- 2010: Enslaved and Exploited: The Story of Sex Trafficking in Canada, Hope for the Sold
References
- ↑ Enslaved and Exploited: The Story of Sex Trafficking in Canada. Hope for the Sold (on Vimeo). 2010.
External links
- CTV: Victor Malarek profile
- Collections Canada – Ukrainian Canadian profiles: Victor Malarek
- Victor Malarek at the Internet Movie Database
- PBS Frontline: Interview: Victor Malarek
- Complicity, complacency, corruption drive global trafficking trade
- Hope for the Sold
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