- Thomas Goltz
Thomas Goltz (born 1954) is an American author and journalist best known for his accounts of conflict in the
Caucasus region during the 1990s.Goltz was born in
Japan , raised inNorth Dakota and graduated fromNew York University with an MA inMiddle East studies. He has worked in and aroundTurkey and the Caucasus region of the formerSoviet Union for the past 15 years. During that period he has become known mainly as a crisis correspondent due to coverage of the war betweenAzerbaijan andArmenia overKarabakh , the war of secession inAbkhazia from Georgia and the separatist conflict inChechnya . His documentary for Global Vision's Rights and Wrongs program became a finalist in theRory Peck Award for excellence in television journalism in 1996.His firsthand nearly-500-page non-fiction historical account of Azerbaijan during the years after it separated from the Soviet Union through the Karabakh War and the rise of
Heydar Aliyev is known as "Azerbaijan Diary" (1998) and is one of the onlyEnglish language accounts of that time and place, the only English-language text to offer a first-hand account of the immediate aftermath of theKhojaly massacre in which hundreds of Azerbaijani refugees were killed while trying to escape Karabakh.Goltz speaks German, Turkish, Arabic, Azeri and Russian, and now spends about half the year in the field and half in
Montana , where he has a house and an orchard and teaches part time at theUniversity of Montana . He is also the author of "Chechnya Diary" (the 2003 story of the 1995Samashki massacre ), "Georgia Diary" (2006) and, more recently, "Assassinating Shakespeare: The True Confessions of a Bard in the Bush" (2006), an account of his early travels inAfrica performing Shakespeare plays throughout the continent.Books
*"Azerbaijan Diary" (1998)
*"Chechnya Diary" (2003)
*"Georgia Diary" (2006)
*"Assassinating Shakespeare: The True Confessions of a Bard in the Bush" (2006)External links
* [http://www.thomasgoltz.com/ Thomas Goltz personal website]
* [http://www.cas.umt.edu/geography/Faculty/goltz.html Thomas Goltz – Visiting Scholar of Geography.] TheUniversity of Montana Department of Geography
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