Martin Sixxmith is an intellectual, writer, screenwriter, journalist and, in his own way, a hero of our time. Martin was born on September 24, 1954 in the city of Warrington, Cheshire, UK. He studied at the Manchester Gymnasium, where he became addicted to the study of the Russian language. After her graduation, she is educated in such institutions as Oxford, Harvard, Sorbonne. At Harvard, she defends graduate work on Russian poetry and travels to St. Petersburg.
Career
Since 1980, Martin Sixxmith has been working in the Air Force as a foreign correspondent. His first reports were broadcast from Moscow. It was Martin who first reported the collapse of the Soviet Union, informed the public about the political achievements of M. Gorbachev and B. Yeltsin. In 1997, he quit the Air Force to become Tony Blair’s government communications director. A little later he was engaged in commercial projects, oversees rebranding of various companies. In 2001, he returned to public service, now joins the Department of Transport.
Scandals and creativity
Returning to public service, Sixsmith was immediately embroiled in a scandal with Joe Moore. After the events of September 11, when the government put strong pressure on the press, forbidden information leaked to the media. She came from Martin Sixxmith, which is why he incurred the displeasure of Downing Street and was forced to resign.
Many expected that leaving civil service, he would start writing memoirs or please the world with his autobiography, but Martin Sixxmith, as always, was unpredictable. In 2004, the book "Spin" was published, which talked about politics, what it is now and what may become in the future. From this very moment, Martin annually presents his books, studies and scripts to the world.
Martin Sixxmith: Books on Russian History
It is difficult to say what exactly caused Martin to pay attention to the history and political situation in Russia. But it is about this country that most of his books are written. In 2005, the writer released a novel called "I Heard Lenin's Laughter." Since 2007, begins to actively study the politics of Russia, including Putin. In the same year, he begins to explore the feud between the Kremlin and emigrant oligarchs.
In 2011, the book “Putin and the Yukos affair. The fight for Russian oil. " In this novel, Sixsmith writes about the consequences that Putin’s energy war will bring to Russia and the world. It is important to note that the book was translated into 6 languages and was published a year earlier in the world. As Martin noted in an interview, he fears for his life, especially at those times when he has to be in Russia. He knows many cases when the word of journalists was forcibly killed even in its infancy.
Nevertheless, fear did not prevent him from publishing the book about the thousand-year-old history of Russia in the same year and presenting it to the general public. “Russia, the 1000-year-old chronicle of the wild East” is written in a lively and fascinating text. He pays particular attention to the dictatorial regime of the government and the 1917 revolution. However, the events that triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union are described rather stereotyped, although the writer Martin Sixxmit himself was their witness.
Partnership with the Air Force
In addition to his writing activities, Martin since 2006 again began to cooperate with the Air Force. In 2006, he went on the air with a number of programs that were dedicated to Russian poetry, literature and art. In 2008, he worked with two documentaries that explore the legacy of the KGB in modern Russia. In the same year he presents a film about artists and writers who fled from Russia.
Until 2014, Martin works in the Air Force as a political adviser. Without his participation, not a single documentary was shot. In 2014, he aired 25 radio parts about the history of psychology and psychiatry. All of them were united under the name "In Search of Himself."
Lost children
Despite his political and scientific achievements, Martin Sixsmith is known to the public as a writer and screenwriter for the film Philomena. People who worked with Martin for a long time could not believe what he wrote in this genre. It seemed to them that this was not Martin Sixxmith. The book "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee" was published in 2009. The story, which was only to reveal the role of the Irish Catholic Church in the adoption and sale of children, turned into a fascinating novel.
In 2013, the book became a film, which was nominated for four Oscars. The story of how a mother and a child were separated in an Irish monastery, and their subsequent attempts to find each other, could turn into a touching, dramatic story with a sad or happy ending. But Martin Sixxmith made his story lively, thoughtful, easy and a little funny. The screenwriter and writer never perceived touching stories, which is why he turned out to be a worthy award-winning masterpiece.