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Oliver August (born July 17, 1971) is a journalist and author. He currently works as the Baghdad bureau chief for The Times of London and The Economist.

August has been a correspondent for The Times of London since 1995, working from bureaus in New York, Beijing and Damascus. His writing on Germany won him the Anglo-German Foundation Journalism Prize in 1998. He has covered financial markets in America, Britain and China, and worked as a war correspondent in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

His first book, Along the Wall and Watchtowers (HarperCollins, 1999), chronicles a journey along the former Iron Curtain and examines the political, economic and social consequences of German reunification. His second book, Inside the Red Mansion (Houghton Mifflin & John Murray, 2007) describes the epic search for Lai Changxing, China's most wanted man, and details the emergence of an entrepreneurial class in post-Communist China. The book was translated into eleven languages.

August was born in Bremerhaven and grew up in northern Germany. His father was a theatre director and his mother an architect. He has a Bachelors degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University and a Masters degree in international relations from City University, London.

August has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, NPR, CNN and CNBC. He has contributed opinion articles to the L.A. Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Currently, he resides in Damascus, Syria, studying Arabic and reporting on the Arab world.

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