Dr Vitali Vitaliev

Dr Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning and fully bilingual (English-Russian) author, columnist, editor, teacher and broadcaster. Starting his career in the former USSR, where he became known as the country’s first investigative journalist, he was forced to defect in January 1990.

Having worked and lived in Australia, England, Scotland and Ireland, Vitali is the author of 14 books ( Hutchinson, Hodder & Stoughton, Random House, Simon & Schuster etc.), translated into German, Japanese, Italian, Russian and Finnish.

He also worked as a columnist, editor and features writer for the Guardian, the European, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald (in the UK), the Age (in Australia), the Village (in Ireland) and many more, and was shortlisted (eight times) for the UK Columnist of Year Award. He has won three Gold TABPI Awards for the best regular column.

A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Vitali is a popular public speaker and media commentator, with the long history of regular appearances on TV and radio.

Vitali’s teaching record includes numerous lectures and seminars in Creative Writing, Journalism, and Linguistics at the universities in the UK, Europe and Australia.

Research Interests

Creative Writing, Geography, Geopolitics, History of Europe, Russian Literature.

Qualifications

Linguist, Translaltor, Teacher of English (Kharkov Univerrsity), Patentologist (PhD, Moscow Institute of Patentology).

Career/Research Highlights

Columnist for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald; Features Editor E&T magazine.

Professional Affiliations

• Royal Geographical Society Fellow (FRGS)
• International Travel Writers Alliance Member (MITWA)

Selected Publications

1990 Special Correspondent – Investigating in the Soviet Union, Hutchinson, ISBN 0-09-174297-8; translated into German (Econ Verlag), French & Japanese (Shinchosa).

1999 Borders Up! Eastern Europe Through the Bottom of a Glass, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-684-81810-8

2008 Passport to Enclavia. Travels in Search of a European Identity, Reportage Press, October, ISBN 978-0-9558302-9-7; Russian translation (SNOB magazine, March 2009); Italian edition in 2010 (FBE Edizione);

2009 Life as a Literary Device, Beautiful Books, 31 October, ISBN 978-1-905636-44-0

Rest of the books (14 altogether) can be found on my Amazon author’s page: Vitali Vitaliev