Foreign correspondent for the Guardian who reported from Israel, Nigeria and France, and then wrote about religion for the paperWhen a 13-year-old pupil at Manchester grammar school, Walter Schwarz wrote in an essay that he wanted `a life of travel, excitement, freedom: in short a journalist`. His teacher responded `an interesting ambition, not easily realised`.However Walter, who has died aged 88, did realise it. In 31 years on the Guardian he was the paper´s correspondent successively in Nigeria, Israel, India, France and Germany before writing for it on religion. Continue reading...
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