John Carlin

John Carlin is an acclaimed journalist and the bestselling author of Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation (later adapted into the film Invictus); Knowing Mandela; Rafa: My Story (co-written ith Rafa Nadal); and The Trials of Oscar Pistorius. He has also written and produced TV documentaries including ‘The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela (PBS 1999),’ the Emmy award-winning ‘The Sixteenth Man (ESPN 2010), and Humanitas award-winning ‘This is Football’ (Amazon Prime, 2019). He has reported for El Pais, La Vanguardia, Clarín,The London Independent, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The New Statesman,The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, among others.