BBC National Short Story Award 2015

Portrait

Born and raised in Galloway SW Scotland, and educated at Edinburgh University, Allan Little joined the BBC in 1983. He spent the majority of his BBC career as a Foreign Correspondent, leaving in 2014 to pursue a freelance career. During this time, he covered the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, and spent the 90s covering the Gulf War in Iraq, the break-up of former Yugoslavia, and conflict in Africa and Moscow. He was the BBC's Special Correspondent based in London from 2005-2014.