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Damien Lewis is an award-winning〔("Graham Rogers sits in" ), ''Laura Rawlings Show'', BBC 5 June 2014.〕 British author and filmmaker who has spent over twenty years reporting from and writing about conflict zones in many countries.〔("Truth stranger than fiction for Bear Grylls’ first novel Ghost Flight" ). June 6, 2015 CLAIRE BICKERS, ''Perth Now''〕 He has produced about twenty films. He has written more than fifteen books, some of which have been published in over thirty languages. His books have appeared on bestseller lists in many countries. He is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. ==Career== Lewis worked as a war correspondent, 〔("Gramp Grylls Ghostly Secret" ). ''Sunday Herald Sun'' 7 June 2015〕〔("Bear Grylls: Action man turns best-selling author" ). ''Stuff.NZ'', JULIE DANN, July 12 2015 〕 and between 1991 and 2005 Lewis wrote, directed, produced and filmed a number of documentary films for National Geographic, The BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery amongst others. Largely focusing on investigating and exposing environmental and human rights violations in Africa, The Middle East, and Asia. In 1991 Lewis' independently funded documentary film ''arks or People?'', about conflict between rainforest conservationists and indigenous tribes in the Congo, won the Wildscreen Film Festival Golden Panda Award. In 1998 He created a documentary film for the BBC, ''Hidden Cost of Heroin'', exposing how heroin is traded for wildlife on the Burmese border. This film won at the BBC One World Awards. In 2000 Lewis' documentary film ''Death in the Air'', about the use of chemical weapons in the Sudanese civil war, was a finalist in the British Rory Peck Awards.〔("IN PRAISE OF PROPAGANDA?: THE RORY PECK AWARDS, DAMIEN LEWIS AND 'DEATH IN THE AIR'" ). ''The European Sudanese Public Affairs Council'', August 2001〕 In 2004 Lewis wrote his first book, ''Slave'', a novel which won The Index on Censorship Book Award at the Index on Censorship Awards.〔("The Index on Censorship Award winners 2004, X Index: The Voice of Free Expression" ). ''The Index on Censorship Book Award''〕 This book was later adapted as a film, ''I Am Slave'', which won the Drama Award at the BBC One World Media Awards in 2011.〔("One World Media Awards 2011" ).〕 In 2005 Lewis's documentary ''War Hospital'' produced by CTV Television Network and the National Film Board of Canada. It is about International Committee of the Red Cross doctors working in the world's largest field hospital Sudan, won the Best of the Festival Award at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival. Lewis has written other fiction and nonfiction books. In 2006 he was chosen as one of the "Nation's Twenty Favourite Authors" by the UK Government's Quick Reads Initiative in association with World Book Day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Damien Lewis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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