Oren Ginzburg
Oren Ginzburg is a French-Israeli writer and cartoonist and the founder of Hungry Man Books. His most famous book - now a short film - There You Go!, was published by Survival International in 2006 and is considered a reference on the fate of tribal people facing "development". The book, translated into 8 languages (most recently Korean, 2015) received excellent reviews from Mary Robinson, Desmond Tutu, and Tony Blair. The book was adapted into a music show by Philippe Kadosh (BabelEyes, 2011).
Oren Ginzburg's latest Children's book, Le destin (presque) timbré d'Etienne Durillon, was published in France by Grasset Jeunesse (September 2016) and has been featured in the newspaper Libération.
Oren Ginzburg has worked for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and for the United Nations Inter-Agency Project Against Human Trafficking.
Books Written
- Le Comptable et la Fourmi (1999)
- The Hungry Man (2004) is a critique of wasted resources in development.
- There You Go! (2006 - Full text), co-published by Survival International, looks at the catastrophic impact of 'development' on tribal people.
- Giftless (2008) takes a wider look at human incompetence and bad management as an underlying cause of inadequate action.
- The Explorers (2013), a children's book on cross-cultural encounters.
- A Powerful but kind of Pointless Funeral Oration (2015) shows how PowerPoint, if misused, can kill virtually any interesting message.