
John Carlin
John Carlin is an award-winning, globetrotting author and journalist who has covered genocide in Rwanda, the social revolution in South Africa, food, wine, and football (er, soccer). The film Invictus was based on his book Playing the Enemy. He lives near Barcelona, Spain, and writes a weekly soccer column for Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais.
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