Cathy Scott-Clarke

Cathy Scott-Clark is an award-winning investigative reporter, author and producer. A former staff writer and foreign correspondent for the Guardian and The Sunday Times, she has won the One World award for foreign reporting and was a Press Journalist of the Year. Her first book, The Stone of Heaven, 2001, was a finalist in Borders New Voices competition. The Amber Room, 2004, was a New York Times Book of the Year, and was translated into many languages. Her third book, Deception was a Washington Post Book of the Year and finalist in the Royal United Services Institute, Duke of Westminster’s medal for Military History. Her fourth book, The Meadow, won the Ramnath Goenka Award in India. Her fifth, The Siege, won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. The Exile: Al Qaeda in Flight, a ground-breaking account of Osama bin Laden’s last decade, which told the stories of his close family and the surviving members of Al Qaeda’s ruling council, was published in May 2017 and was a Guardian book of the year. Recently, she produced The Forever Prisoner, a documentary film for HBO Max with Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney. In September 2022, the film won an Emmy for ‘Outstanding Investigative Documentary.’ Her most recent book, Russia’s Man of War: The Extraordinary Viktor Bout, was published to international acclaim. Together with Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark has produced documentaries for HBO, BBC 1, BBC 2, C4 and has won several awards, including the Amnesty International Award for Best Documentary in 2013.