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, and continues to be featured in international press - for example in The Hindu (2011) and Open (2011). The book was adapted into a music show by Philippe Kadosh (BabelEyes, 2011).
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.