New Statesman people

The list New Statesman people includes Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis, Michael Morpurgo, Auberon Waugh and Kevin Maguire (journalist). The list consists of 84 members.

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New Statesman

British political and cultural magazine

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Andrew Marr

British journalist

Overview: Andrew William Stevenson Marr (born 31 July 1959) is a British journalist and a television and radio presenter. Beginning his career as a political commentator, he subsequently edited The Independent ...

Date of birth: 31 July 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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Journalists from Glasgow 32T

The Independent editors 10T

21st-century British journalists 175T
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Elif Safak

Turkish writer

Overview: Elif Shafak FRSL (Turkish: Elif Şafak, born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British writer, storyteller, essayist, academic, public speaker, and women's rights activist. In English, she publishes under the ...

Date of birth: 25 October 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: Turkish

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Partner: Eyüp Can (journalist) (Married)

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Bisexual academics 37T

Turkish women novelists 21T

Exophonic writers 56T
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Christopher Hitchens

British author and journalist (1949–2011)

Overview: Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, and social critic. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor, or ...

Date of birth: 13 April 1949

Date of death: 15 December 2011

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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New Atheism 31T

Jewish American atheism activists 8T

Deaths from pneumonia in Texas 44T
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Simon Callow

British actor (born 1949)

Overview: Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, writer, and theatre and opera director.

Date of birth: 24 June 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Sebastian Fox (Married)

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LGBT actors from England 136T

LGBT theatre directors 121T

English gay actors 167T
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Grace Blakeley

British economic and political pundit

Overview: Grace Blakeley (born 26 June 1993) is an English economics and politics commentator, columnist, journalist and author. She is a staff writer for Tribune and panelist on TalkTV. She was previously the ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1993

Age: 31

Nationality: British

Occupation: Economist

Gender: Female

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Novara Media 6T

British women columnists 100T

British anti-capitalists 40T
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Tracey Thorn

English singer and songwriter

Overview: Tracey Anne Thorn (born 26 September 1962) is a British singer, songwriter and writer. She is best known as being one half of the duo Everything but the Girl from 1982 to 1999. She was a member of the ...

Date of birth: 26 September 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century English women singers 318T

21st-century English women singers 582T

English women in electronic music 121T
7.

Simon Heffer

British journalist and historian

Overview: Simon James Heffer (born 18 July 1960) is an English historian, journalist, author and political commentator. He has published several biographies and a series of books on the social history of Great ...

Date of birth: 18 July 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Partner: Diana Caroline (Married)

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British male writers 824T

People educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford 43T

The Daily Telegraph people 124T
8.

Will Self

English writer and journalist (born 1961)

Overview: William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English author, journalist, political commentator and television personality. He has written eleven novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three ...

Date of birth: 26 September 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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21st-century English male writers 486T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T

Self family 6T
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Martin Amis

English novelist

Overview: Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He was best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1949

Date of death: 24 June 2010

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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2023 deaths 2,584T

20th-century English screenwriters 295T

20th-century travel writers 86T
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Karen Armstrong

British writer; former Roman Catholic nun

Overview: Karen Armstrong OBE FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she ...

Date of birth: 14 November 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Buddhist and Christian interfaith dialogue 11T

People associated with Leo Baeck College 14T

20th-century Christian nuns 359T
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Michael Morpurgo

British children's writer

Overview: Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, OBE, FRSL, FKC (born Michael Andrew Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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21st-century English male writers 486T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T

21st-century British male writers 720T
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Mark Haddon

English writer and illustrator

Overview: Mark Haddon, stylized as mark haddon, (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray ...

Date of birth: 26 September 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: English

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Partner: Sos Eltis (Married)

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21st-century English male writers 486T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T

Vegetarians 377T
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Mehdi Hasan

British journalist

Overview: Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979) is a British-American political journalist of Indian descent, broadcaster and author.

Date of birth: July 1979

Age: 45

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

21st-century Muslims 41T

20th-century Muslims 38T
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Cyril Connolly

English, Author

Overview: Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise ...

Date of birth: 10 September 1903

Date of death: 26 November 1974

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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Writers from Coventry 21T

20th-century English male writers 1,625T

English male non-fiction writers 1,968T
15.

Auberon Waugh

Author

Overview: Auberon Alexander Waugh (17 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) was an English journalist and novelist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname "Bron".

Date of birth: 17 November 1939

Date of death: 16 January 2001

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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Onslow family 50T

English male novelists 1,096T

20th-century English novelists 1,317T
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Jonathan Coe

English novelist

Overview: Jonathan Coe FRSL (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically ...

Date of birth: 19 August 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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English male non-fiction writers 1,748T

English male writers 2,660T

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners 58T
17.

Helen Lewis (journalist)

British journalist (born 1983)

Overview: Helen Lewis (born 30 September 1983) is a British journalist and the former deputy editor of the New Statesman. She has also written for The Guardian and The Sunday Times.

Date of birth: 30 September 1983

Age: 41

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

Partner: Matthew Hasteley (Married)

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Radical feminists 129T

Internet trolling 41T

Internet culture 109T
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Educationalist

Overview: Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, PC (born Andreas Adonis; 22 February 1963) is a British Labour Party politician and journalist who served in HM Government for five years in the Blair ministry and the Brown ...

Date of birth: 22 February 1963

Age: 62

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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Life peers created by Elizabeth II 247T

Advocates of the European Union 109T

Gay academics 123T
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Hilary Mantel

British writer (1952–2022)

Overview: Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, DBE, FRSL ( man-TEL; born Hilary Mary Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories ...

Date of birth: 6 July 1952

Date of death: 22 September 2022

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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2022 deaths 6,534T

20th-century English women writers 766T

21st-century English women writers 472T
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Tessa McWatt

Guyanese-born Canadian writer

Overview: Tessa McWatt is a Guyanese-born Canadian writer. She has written six novels and is a creative writing professor at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom.

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian women writers 944T

Black Canadian women 272T

Afro-Guyanese people 76T