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Richard Kerbaj

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Richard Kerbaj is a BAFTA-winning, twice Emmy-nominated filmmaker, writer and multi-award winning print journalist. Kerbaj specialized in investigating crime and national security-related stories during his 20 year career at newspapers in Australia and Britain.

Kerbaj's most recent projects include the book The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network in 2022, and Litvinenko in 2022, a true-crime TV drama centred on the 2006 assassination of Alexander Litvinenko by Russian agents operating in London.

Life

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Born in Melbourne, Australia to parents of Druze origin, Kerbaj's family moved to a village in Lebanon in 1980 when he was 2 years old. They became trapped by the country's escalating civil war.[1]

His family returned to Melbourne and lived in Toorak where they ran a milk bar. During Kerbaj's final year of high school his English grades improved dramatically with help from tutor and friend Ben Sheehan. In March 2001, Kerbaj started a writing course at Deakin University, where he studied under influential Australian author, journalist and photographer Peter Davis.[1] Kerbaj's first newspaper article was an August 2001 profile of host of Barry Bissell, the host of radio show Take 40 Australia, which was published in The Age.[1]

Kerbaj initially worked as a freelancer before he started working for The Australian newspaper in 2005.[1]

In 2006 Kerbaj published an article on Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali which won the John Curtin Prize for Journalism and a Young Journalist of the Year award at News Limited which gave him the opportunity to work at a News Limited publication in London for three months.[1]

In 2018 Kerbaj shared the "Scoop of the Year" award with Tom Harper and Jon Ungoed-Thomas at the British Press Awards for their reporting on pornography found on the computer of Damian Green.[1][2]

In December,[year needed] Kerbaj praised the series' star David Tennant, stating that he had: "Saved our show because it was commissioned a few months before COVID hit. Had David decided not to stay involved, I’m not sure the drama would've been made."[citation needed]

Producer

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Books

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  • Kerbaj, Richard (2022). The secret history of the Five Eyes : the untold story of the international spy network. London. ISBN 978-1-78946-503-7. OCLC 1338655960.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Wilson, Peter (14 October 2022). "From Melbourne milk bar to BAFTA winner: How Richard Kerbaj made his own luck". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Financial Times crowned Newspaper of the Year at National Press Awards for 2017 – Society of Editors". Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  3. ^ Grierson, Jamie (15 June 2015). "Mother of Briton 'killed fighting for al-Shabaab' felt let down by authorities". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
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