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Claire Armitstead is a British journalist and author. She is Associate Editor (Culture) at ''
"Claire Armitstead"
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Claire Armitstead is a British journalist and author. She is Associate Editor (Culture) at ''The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'', where she has worked since 1992. She is also a cultural commentator on literature and the arts, and makes appearances on radio and television, as well as leading workshops and chairing literary events in the UK and at international festivals. She has judged literary competitions including the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world. It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and ...
, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the PEN Pinter Prize
The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice Pres ...
and the Scotiabank Giller Prize
The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize), is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition be ...
.
Biography
Armitstead was born in south London, England, and spent her early childhood in Northern Nigeria, attending primary school inKaduna
Kaduna is the capital city of Kaduna State, and the former political capital of Northern Region, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria. It is located in north-western Nigeria, on the Kaduna River. It is a trade Centre and a major transportation hub as the ...
.
She worked as a trainee reporter in South Wales, before joining the ''Hampstead & Highgate Express
The Ham & High, officially the Hampstead & Highgate Express is a weekly paid newspaper published in the London Borough of Camden by Archant.
The newspaper is priced at £1 and is published every Thursday.
History
Founded in 1860, from 1862 it ...
'' as a theatre critic and sub-editor, moving from there to the ''Financial Times
The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nik ...
'' and then in 1992 to ''The Guardian'', where she has been Arts Editor, Literary Editor (in which position she was described as "Respected blue-stocking and keen cyclist who keeps the wheels turning on ever more ambitious books pages"), Head of Books and, most recently, Associate Editor (Culture).
Armitstead's essays have been published in ''New Performance'' (Macmillan, 1994) and ''Women: A Cultural Review'' (Oxford University Press, 1996), and she edited ''Tales of Two Londons: Stories From a Fractured City'' ( O/R Books, 2018), an anthology that "sets out to mirror London's diversity by ensuring that more than a third of the voices are of those not born in the UK."
Armitstead has been a judge for literary competitions as varied as the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world. It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and ...
, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize
The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice Pres ...
and the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize
The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize), is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition be ...
. She has been a trustee of English PEN since 2013.
Armitstead presents ''The Guardian''s weekly books podcast. The podcast includes interviews with authors. The show is cohosted by Richard Lea and Sian Cain. The show discusses poetry, books, and other works of literature.
Bibliography
* (Editor) ''Tales of Two Londons: Stories From a Fractured City'', O/R Books, 2018, . Arcadia Books, 2019, .References
External links
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