Nick Thorpe

Nick Thorpe is the BBC Central Europe correspondent, based in Budapest since 1986. Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness – A Journey through the Carpathians (Yale UP, 2015) is his 4th book. His previous books are: The Danube – A Journey Upriver (Yale UP 2013), also in German as Die Donau – Gegen den Strom (Zsolnay Verlag, 2017),  The Unfinished Revolution – Power and Powerlessness in Eastern Europe (Reportage Press, London, 2009), and The Road Before Me Weeps – On the Refugee route through Europe (Yale UP, 2018), Die weinende Straße vor mir: Entlang der Balkanroute (danubebooks, 2020). 

He is also the director or presenter of 20 documentary films. 

In December 2024 he launched ‘A Kind of Solution’ on Substack, where he writes regularly on politics, travel and poetry: https://nickthorpe.substack.com/