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Rui Araujo, Portugal, is an award-winning investigative reporter who has covered wars in Angola, Zaire, Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and particularly East Timor, the former Portuguese colony under Indonesian rule.

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He produced a highly acclaimed documentary, leading the first Portuguese television crew allowed onto the island after the 1975 Indonesian invasion. He is a former stringer for Radio France Internationale, O Jornal, TSF Radio, Visao, and is one of the founders of Grande Reportagem, a monthly newsmagazine. In 1987, Araujo reported for CBS News on the Iran-Contra scandal. Araujo has won nine journalism awards for television and print reporting. A graduate of the Sorbonne in Paris, Araujo was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University in 1991. He wrote three thrillers (À Queima-Roupa, Lisbon Killer, and A Amante Fatal). He is also the author of a non-fiction book on East Timor, published in 1985, co-author of Grande Reportagem, published in 2006, and a contributing writer to Corruption Notebooks (Center for Public Integrity). Araujo has been ombudsman for Portuguese daily newspaper Publico from 2006 to 2007. He is now a freelance investigative reporter for Portuguese television station TVI and for French weekly newsmagazine Le Point and Portuguese weekly Expresso. His last non-fiction book, The Secret Diary Salazar Did Not Read (intelligence in Portugal during WW2), was published in September 2008. His next novel will be published by Oficina do Livro (Lisbon) in March 2009. He now plans to embark on a project about OSS operations in wartime Lisbon.