Inspiring Travel Writing from Tim Elliott

Tim Elliott is an award winning journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The South China Morning Post, and London’s The Financial Times. He is also a regular contributor to Travel + Leisure (Australia).

His first book, The Bolivian Times (Random House, 2001), became an underground classic. An account of the six months he spent working on an English-language paper in South America, it was described by The Australian’s Review of Books as offering a “droll insight” into Bolivia written with “relentless humour.”

His second book, Spain By The Horns (Random House, 2005), uses the search for one of Spain’s most controversial bullfighters as a stepping off point from which to examine Spain’s history, culture and society.

He also contributed to the best selling anthology, Come Away With Me (Random House, 2004).

Elliott’s awards include the prestigious Australian Society of Magazine Editors Best Feature National Magazine Award (1998), Australian Society of Travel Writers Journalist of the Year (2002), Australian Society of Travel Writers Journalist of the Year — Highly Commended (2003), and Australian Society of Travel Writers Travel Photographer of the Year (2004).

As a journalist, Elliott has joined the army, hung around in morgues, been mistaken by dope growers for a narcotics officer, and eaten goat liver with the Kalahari bushmen.