Jack Fairweather (writer)

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This article is about a British journalist and author. For the Canadian politician and attorney, see Jack Fairweather (politician).

Jack Fairweather (born in 1978), is a British journalist and author.

Early life[]

Fairweather was born in Shrewsbury, England in 1978.[1] He was educated at Atlantic College and Lincoln College, at the University of Oxford.[2]

Career[]

Fairweather was a freelance correspondent embedded with British troops during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was a stringer for The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad, where he met his wife , a journalist working on contract to cover education issues in Iraq for New York Times. [2] Fairweather claims he survived an attempted kidnapping and an attempted suicide bombing in Iraq.[2]

He later contributed freelance articles from Afghanistan to the PostGlobal blog hosted byThe Washington Post.[2] His war coverage has won a British Press Award and an Overseas Press Club award citation.[3] His book The Volunteer, a biography about Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, won the 2019 Costa Book Award.[4][5]

Books[]

Awards[]

The Good War was a finalist for the 2015 Lionel Gelber Prize.[14]

The Volunteer won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2019.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Costa Book Awards 2019: Category Winners Announced". Costa. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Picard, Ken (19 June 2019). "Jack Fairweather Writes Story of Unsung Hero at Auschwitz". Seven Days. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Christian, Bonnie (28 January 2020). "Jack Fairweather wins Costa Book of the Year with The Volunteer". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  4. ^ "'Lost' story of Auschwitz hero wins Costa Prize". BBC News. 29 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  5. ^ Bakare, Lanre (28 January 2020). "Costa prize: Jack Fairweather wins book of the year with The Volunteer". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  6. ^ "A War of Choice (brief review)". The Independent. 6 October 2012.
  7. ^ Hastings, Max (23 October 2011). "A War of Choice (book review)". The Times. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  8. ^ Rayment, Sean (6 January 2012). "A War of Choice: the British in Iraq 2003-9 (book review)". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  9. ^ Mallet, Victor (5 December 2014). "The Good War (book review)". Financial Times. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  10. ^ Farmer, Ben (4 December 2014). "The Good War: the Battle for Afghanistan 2006–14 ; book review: 'sobering and riveting'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  11. ^ "How the West Failed Afghanistan (book review)". New Statesman. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
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  13. ^ "The man who volunteered for Auschwitz: New bio explores extraordinary life of hero who exposed Holocaust horrors". THEfirstNEWS. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  14. ^ Wittmeyer, Alicia Q. (25 March 2015). "Introducing the 2015 Lionel Gelber Finalists. Today's Nominee: Jack Fairweather". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
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