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Louisa Waugh was born in Berlin and has lived in Liverpool, London and now Edinburgh. Whilst in London she worked with street homeless young people, before packing her bags and taking the Trans-Siberian train to Mongolia in 1996, where she set up home for several years, learnt fluent Mongolian and worked as a freelance journalist. Her book Hearing Birds Fly tells about her life amongst the Tsengel villagers and won the inaugural Ondaatje prize. Waugh’s second book, Selling Olga, is a book about human trafficking. It is an exposé of its mechanics, economics and global scale, and an investigation into the experiences of individual women and men who have been trafficked, and survived. This is a hard hitting and controversial book, which pulls no punches about the brutality of this industry. |
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Saturday, June 3 2006 |
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