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Murray Sayle
Murray William Sayle OAM (1 January 1926 - 19 September 2010) was an Australian journalist, novelist and adventurer.
A native of Sydney, he started work as a copy boy with the Bulletin while still...view moreMurray William Sayle OAM (1 January 1926 - 19 September 2010) was an Australian journalist, novelist and adventurer.
A native of Sydney, he started work as a copy boy with the Bulletin while still at Sydney University, later becoming a reporter for the Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mirror. In 1952 he moved to London where he worked in Fleet Street until 1956. He was a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During his long career he covered wars in Vietnam, Pakistan and the Middle East, accompanied an expedition on its climb of Mount Everest, sailed solo across the Atlantic Ocean, was the first reporter to interview double agent Kim Philby after his defection to Russia, and trekked through the Bolivian jungle in search for Che Guevara. He resigned from The Sunday Times in 1972 after the newspaper refused to publish an investigative piece he wrote about the Bloody Sunday shootings of 26 unarmed protesters in Northern Ireland.
Sayle moved to Hong Kong in 1972 and became Asian Editor of Newsweek before moving to Japan as a freelance to Japan in 1975, where he remained for nearly 30 years as a writer on Japan for various publications, principally The Independent Magazine, The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. He returned to Australia in 2004, where he died in Sydney in 2010 at the age of 84.view less