Fausto Biloslavo (Trieste, 13 November 1961) is an Italian journalist, book writer and one of the most experienced Italian war correspondent. Fausto Biloslavo was born and raised in Trieste where he also was educated. He graduated at Trieste University on Political Sciences / International branch.
Among the best-known and most prolific modern writer on modern conflicts, Italian’s FB, has experienced war first-hand. As a correspondent and free-lance journalist he covered conflicts ranging from the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan to the Balkans, forgotten wars in Africa, Iraq and Middle East. In 1982 at 21 he was in Lebanon to cover the civil war as a freelancer photographer. During the Israeli offensive he was the only one who witnessed the then PLO leader ,Yasser Arafat, fleeing Beirout. In 1983 he associated with two friends - who shared his political passion and love for freelancing journalism - Almerigo Grilz (killed in Macambique in 1987 during a fight involving the South African backed militia and the Mocambican forces) and Gian Micalessin, and founded the Albatross Press Agency. The agency produced reportages, and first hand war correspondence from World’s hot spots, and sold its works to the biggest international networks, mostly on the English speaking countries. Even in Italy, beside the highly negative prejudice that surrounded the agency, for being founded by former member of right wing party, MSI-DN, Albatros managed to emerge anyway, and sold its reportages to Panorama and to the state owned network RAI Tv news TG1; during these years Albatross has produced services from Iran, Cyprus, Libya, Sudan, Uganda, Philippines and Afghanistan. In 1988 Fausto Biloslavo was arrested by the filo soviet Afghan police. He was detained for seven months and sentenced to seven years in the Pul I Charki prison in Kabul, and was released thanks to the personal intervention of the former Italian President Francesco Cossiga. Nowadays He is one of the major Italian expert of the troubled Asian country. Fausto Biloslavo is married and lives in Trieste with his wife and daughter. He is a pround member of the Paratrooper Association or ANPd’I of Trieste. Fausto Biloslavo has authored many books on conflicts he personally witnessed, and currently writes for a variety of newspapers in the Italy, including Il Foglio, Il Giornale and Panorama