About the Author

Wolfgang Buscher heads the features (reportage) desk of the German daily Die Welt. He was awarded many prizes including the Seume Literaturpreis for his book Berlin - Moscow: A Journey on Foot (published in 2003). The German President Horst Kohler praised him for travelling the world 'open-eyed and without prejudice' when awarding Buscher the Ludwig-Borne-Preis for reportage.